8:30 AM PT — Cops simply held a presser and offered extra particulars about how precisely Riley Pressure was discovered. They are saying the physique was found round 7:28 AM CT when a employee discovered him after eradicating an object from the river, after which the physique surfaced.
The police say that the Medical Examiner reviewed the physique and confirmed it was Riley — additionally they say he nonetheless had his shirt and watch on him from the night time he went lacking. Nashville PD says the household was notified, and reiterates no foul play is suspected for now.
The physique of Riley Pressure — the Missouri faculty pupil who went lacking in Nashville 2 weeks in the past — has lastly been discovered … and it was recovered from a river within the space.
His corpse was found Friday within the Cumberland River, reportedly 8 miles away from the DT Nashville space … the place Riley had final been seen after getting separated from his group throughout an evening of bar hopping on March 8.
Cops say there isn’t a foul play suspected at this level, and no trauma noticed both. An post-mortem to find out a explanation for demise is pending. Unclear the place precisely within the river Pressure’s physique was discovered or beneath what circumstances … however this marks the top of a tragic saga.
Pressure first disappeared on a Friday night time — this after getting kicked out of Luke Bryan‘s 32 Bridge bar alongside Broadway … at which level he wandered off on his personal.
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Surveillance footage launched to the general public confirmed Pressure aimlessly wandering the streets of Nashville — at instances looking of types and stumbling over. At different factors in since-released footage of him from that night time — together with physique cam video — Pressure appeared pretty coherent.
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The bar says they requested Riley to depart after he began violating their conduct insurance policies — suggesting he was closely intoxicated — but in addition insist they didn’t overserve him.
There have been claims the bar had given plenty of booze that night time — however 32 Bridge says their data present he was solely given one drink and two waters earlier than he was booted … at which level, the bar says his associates didn’t depart with him. The Tennessee ABC is investigating the overserving allegation.
Pressure’s associates, in the meantime, say he informed them he’d meet them again at their resort, only a few blocks away, however he by no means turned up in a while.
As an alternative, it seems Pressure acquired misplaced and made his means over towards the river — the place totally different eyewitnesses say they noticed him that night time … confirmed by the very fact his financial institution card was not too long ago found close to that space as effectively. Search crews have been scouring the river for days now and hadn’t discovered something … that’s, till immediately. No phrase on who discovered him.
Pressure’s household have been in Nashville because the starting … calling on the general public’s assist, and placing stress on police to usher in extra assets to trace him down. We might even been informed by a household spokesperson that his mom and father believed he would possibly nonetheless be alive.
