By Rebecca Cohen -
NBC News
The University of Missouri student who disappeared after being kicked out of a Nashville bar was served only one drink before being asked to leave country music star Luke Bryan's bar, the bar's owners said.
Luke's 32 Bridge + Drink and its owner, TC Restaurant Group, said in a statement that Riley Strain, 22, was served
an alcoholic beverage and two waters
while at the bar in downtown Nashville during a trip with his fraternity to a dance.
Riley Strain.Metropolitan Nashville Police Department
He was last seen on security video shortly before 10:00 pm on March 8.
In the footage, he appears to swing and do a complete 360-degree turn before continuing walking.
The statement from Luke's 32 Bridge + Drink stated that “based on our standards of conduct,” Strain was escorted out by security at 9:35 p.m.
The text did not provide details about Strain's alleged behavior before being expelled.
The bar owners explained that Strain was escorted out through the Broadway Street exit at the front of the building.
A friend walked him downstairs
, according to the statement, but he did not leave with Strain, instead returning to the bar.
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Aaron Rummage, communications director for the Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission, stated earlier this week that the agency was investigating whether Strain “was served alcohol while visibly intoxicated.”
The bar said it had also
“provided detailed information”
to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department in an effort to help locate the missing young man.
“This information included all security camera recordings, photos of Riley in our establishment with detailed time stamps, transaction logs and staff accounts,” the statement said.
When Strain left the bar, he told friends he was going back to his hotel, his stepfather, Chris Whiteid, told NBC affiliate WSMV in Nashville.
Whiteid claimed in an interview on Top Story with host Tom Llamas on Tuesday that Strain never returned to the hotel.
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Security footage released by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department shows Strain crossing North 1st Avenue toward Gay Street at 9:47 p.m., which is less than a mile from the Luke's 32 Bridge and in the opposite direction of the Tempo Hotel. , where he and his friends were staying.
Nashville Police Sergeant Robert Neilsen said Thursday that the last video police have of Strain is from 9:52 p.m., when he is seen walking north between James Robertson Parkway and the Woodland Street Bridge. .
He said other nearby cameras did not capture Strain's journey and that police were still searching for more security cameras to get more information.
A search is underway
by land, air and along the riverbank
, near where Strain was last seen.
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Neilsen said the department has been using ships with sonar capabilities as well as drones to find Strain.
He indicated that the department is awaiting records from Strain's cell phone and his Apple Watch to determine where he may have gone.
Nielsen stated that there were no signs of a crime having been committed at this point and that it remained a missing person investigation.