By Matt Lavietes -
NBC News
Ten days after University of Missouri student Riley Strain disappeared, more details have emerged about her movements before she was lost in Nashville, Tennessee.
Police released new footage Monday showing Strain, 22,
briefly interacting with a police officer
who was responding to a vehicle burglary on March 8, the night she disappeared.
His stepfather told NBC News on Monday that Strain had gone to two more bars that same night before being kicked out of another establishment.
Riley Strain.Metropolitan Nashville Police Department
New video shared by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department on social media shows Strain briskly walking alongside an officer on a sidewalk adjacent to the Cumberland River on Gay Street at approximately 9:52 p.m.
In the video you can see how the agent asks Strain how he is, to which he responds: “I'm fine, how are you?”
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In security footage taken in the minutes before the last video and released by police last week, Strain can be seen stumbling at times and at one point falling.
In the video released this Monday, Strain appears to walk upright.
“To those who say that they think he might have been in danger, that someone might have chased him while he was walking down Gay Street, well, as you can see in the video, he is walking alone along the riverbank and talking to a police officer. while the officer is looking at a vehicle that had been broken into,” said Don Aaron, police spokesman.
Aaron added that
no evidence of a crime has turned up
as police continue to try to locate Strain and that no video has been obtained of Strain walking down Gay Street after 9:52 p.m.
Strain had been visiting Nashville with friends from his college fraternity, Delta Chi.
He disappeared after being kicked out of Luke's 32 Bridge Food + Drink, a bar owned by country singer Luke Bryan, located in the center of the city.
The bar stated last week that security staff kicked Strain out around 9:35 p.m. “based on our standards of conduct,” but did not elaborate on Strain's behavior.
He added that
Strain was only served one alcoholic beverage and two waters
.
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Chris Whiteid, Strain's stepfather, told NBC News that Strain FaceTimed his mother between 7:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., the night she disappeared, and that Whiteid was sitting nearby and overheard their conversation.
Whiteid explained that Strain called his mother from Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk, a bar owned by country singer Garth Brooks and located a few buildings from Luke's 32 Bridge.
Strain also mentioned that he and his fraternity colleagues had also been at Miranda Lambert's Casa Rosa bar that night.
Attempts to contact members of Strain's fraternity were unsuccessful.
In a statement, the fraternity's CEO, Karl Grindel, referred NBC News to police and asked reporters not to contact any members of the group.
Whiteid claimed that although he assumed Strain had had more than one drink that night, "it didn't even seem like he had a lot to drink" on the call, and that he had been texting his mother consistently for the hour after the finale. Of the call.
“I've had quite a bit of drinking in my life and I still wonder if it was the alcohol or something else,” Whiteid said, referring to how Strain appeared to have lost control of his balance in some of the security footage.
Whiteid said that since Strain was reported missing, he has received messages from as many as 10 people
claiming to have been drugged while visiting bars in Nashville
.
“We are hearing horror stories,” Whiteid said.
“I hope this helps bring the issue to light for people who come to the city to be aware, to watch and pay more attention, but I definitely feel like there is a very good chance that this is a common problem in this city".
Authorities said Strain's bank card was found on an embankment between Gay Street and the Cumberland River on Sunday.
Whiteid stated that
it does not appear that Strain was the victim of a theft
: there have been no new charges on any of his debit or credit cards and the only account his family cannot access is the one associated with the card found on Sunday.
“I want Riley to know: We are actively looking for you, son,” Whiteid said through tears.
“Let's bring you home.”