On June 2, 2007, at 3 a.m., the band’s original drummer, John Ryan Pike of Hamilton, Massachusetts , went missing under suspicious circumstances at a party at Wilbur’s Point in Fairhaven, Massachusetts , after a show in Providence, Rhode Island . A search party discovered his cellphone on the beach at Buzzards Bay . His body was discovered June 3, 2007, at 4:10 p.m. in Buzzards Bay; Pike was believed to have drowned. No foul play was suspected. Ra Ra Riot issued a statement a few weeks after Pike’s funeral that they would continue as a band.
Drummer went missing
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