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Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Carly Pearce dedicated a song to Riley Strain who went missing on fraternity formal trip with his fraternity members at Luke Bryan bar in viral Bodycam footage.
The search for missing University of Missouri (Mizzou) student Riley Strain ended Friday morning, police said, when his body was pulled from a river in West Nashville.
Strain, 22, disappeared March 8 after being kicked out of a bar along Lower Broadway in Music City’s downtown entertainment district known as honky-tonk row. Strain was a student at Mizzou and traveled to Nashville to attend the annual spring formal for his fraternity Delta Chi.
“You don’t understand how much that meant to us in some of our darkest hours,” he said. “The hugs, the prayers, the offers — I can’t say it enough: thank you.”
Strain’s mother, in tears, had one message to share: “I just ask that you mamas out there — hug your babies tight tonight, please. Please, for me.”
His body was found in the Cumberland River in West Nashville, about eight miles from downtown, the Metro Nashville Police Department police posted on X.
The river is a major waterway of the South which weaves through downtown Nashville and eventually flows back north into Kentucky.
Strain’s body was spotted by workers at the river Friday morning, Drake said. The autopsy will likely be done Saturday, authorities said.
Strain’s family thanked everyone involved in the search, from first responders to volunteers to family and friends, during a press briefing Friday evening.
“Thank you for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers. We can’t say enough to all of you,” his father, Ryan Gilbert, said.
Strain’s stepfather, Chris Whiteid, said the ordeal has been an “emotional rollercoaster,” and thanked the people of Nashville for their support.
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