A Missouri college student went missing in Nashville. Police now know what killed him

Riley Strain, a Missouri college student who went missing after leaving a downtown Nashville bar and whose body was later found in a river, died of accidental drowning and alcohol poisoning, the medical examiner’s office said Tuesday. Strain’s body was found in the Cumberland River in West Nashville on the morning of March 22, several miles from where he had gone missing.

The cannabis compound Delta-9 THC was also found in his system, the report said. Police found Strain had consumed “multiple alcoholic drinks” at different establishments in Nashville, became separated from his friends and was “noticeably impaired” as he walked onto Gay Street, adjacent to the Cumberland River on the night of March 8.

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