A Colorado man who went missing while in Nashville for a work conference was found dead on Thursday night, police said.
Conor Anderson, 31, was found near a parking lot next to a highway interchange in East Nashville, the said in a news release.
Investigators do not suspect foul play and his cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner, the agency said.
Anderson went missing after he was last seen by officers early Sunday morning nearby in the Woodland Street/Main Street area of East Nashville, according to the police department.
He had flown into the city for a work conference and checked into the Millennium Maxwell House hotel, and at around 1 a.m. Sunday, he flagged down police officers driving by and told them he had given some men $40 to show him around the area, but the men threatened him and walked off with the cash.
A video of the encounter captured on an officer’s body-worn camera showed Anderson recounting the incident to police and struggling to answer questions about what happened, such as why he handed over an additional $20 after the first man walked away with the cash and in what way the men were threatening him.
One of the officers asked Anderson if he was trying to buy drugs, which Anderson repeatedly denied. The encounter ended after Anderson didn’t want to give the officers his ID to file a report, and the officer told him not to give strangers money and that he should get a rideshare home.
