The bank card for the college student who went missing after being “overserved” and kicked out of a Nashville bar owned by country artist Luke Bryan was found by cops near a river in the area Sunday.
Riley Strain, 22 — a student at the University of Missouri — vanished on March 8 at Luke’s 32 Bridge Food + Drink on Broadway in the city’s honky-tonk district.
But the Metro Nashville Police Department got a clue when they found Strain’s bank card on the embankment of the Cumberland River Sunday afternoon, according to a report by Fox News.
“Riley Strain’s bank card was discovered this afternoon on the embankment between Gay St. And the Cumberland River. The search for him continues,” police said in a post on X.
Strain was last spotted walking along Gay Street around 10 p.m. after getting kicked out of the bar for being too drunk, according to the cops and his family.
The student — who’d been visiting the Music City with his Delta Chi fraternity brothers — told his friends he was heading back to the hotel but he never arrived.
Phone tracking last placed him about a half mile from the bar between Gay Street and James Robertson Parkway — which is yards from the river and the Woodland Street Bridge.
Surveillance video shows Strain walking in the direction of the hotel before making a wrong turn.
Strain’s parents claim a bartender at the establishment said the son had been overserved and was trying to pay his tab at the time he was booted.
But the bar responded claiming they only served him one alcoholic drink and two waters.
“This is definitely the worst nightmare,” Strain’s stepfather Chris Whiteid said last week. “He talks to his mom three or four times a day. For him to go this long without talking is not normal by any means.”