A teenager drunkenly had his bum painted and dared friends to hit him at a raging party hours before he was found dead on the side of the road.
Noah Presgrove, 19, was wearing only his shoes when his body was discovered on a deserted stretch of US-81 in Teller, Oklahoma, on September 4.
He was last seen alive at the four-day 22nd birthday party with friends over Labor Day weekend, which was extensively documented on social media.
Presgrove and his friends graduated from Comanche High School a few months earlier, and his family said he planned to join the military.
But that weekend they drunkenly celebrated the end of summer with a huge party at the birthday boy’s house, as detailed in videos obtained by DailyMail.com.
Noah Presgrove, 19, was wearing only his shoes when his body was discovered on a deserted stretch of US-81 in Teller, Oklahoma, on September 4.
Video from the night he died showed some of Presgrove’s friends writing their names on his bare buttocks with a marker.
The writing was no longer there when his body was discovered in the early morning hours, but it was not known how or when it was removed.
Other photos show the teen writing on another friend’s buttocks and posing next to them with an autograph on his chest.
Two more videos show Presgrove daring friends to punch him in the face as they partied under an outdoor patio at the home.
Presgrove had to repeatedly insist that a male friend hit him, eventually giving him only a light slap before sprinting away for fear of retaliation.
Another worrying photo showed a teenager holding a gun, with Presgrove visible in the foreground.
He was last seen alive at the four-day 22nd birthday party with friends over Labor Day weekend, which was heavily documented on social media.
That weekend they drunkenly celebrated the end of summer with a big party at the birthday boy’s house
Another troubling photo shows a teenager holding a gun, with Presgrove visible in the foreground
Presgrove’s family complained that his friends all claimed to have no idea what happened to him and how he ended up dead on the side of the road just hours later.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation described his death as “suspicious” days later, but virtually no details have been released about the investigation.
Even Presgrove’s family was left in the dark, and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol declined to provide details to maintain the “integrity of the investigation.”
They haven’t even seen the medical report or been told the cause of death, and they claim they haven’t heard from the police since last year.
The scant available documents showed that police were told conflicting stories and initially believed that Presgrove could have been killed in a collision.
Presgrove (left) poses with a friend on the Sunday night of the party, hours before his death
Presgrove’s family (left) complained that his friends all claimed to have no idea what happened to him and how he ended up dead on the side of the road just hours later
Instead, it was possible that he had been “forcibly pushed out of the back of a moving truck” based on blood tests.
His family said they were only told he had suffered head trauma, but were unsure if that was the cause of death.
Some of them are convinced that he was murdered and his body dumped on the side of the road, still within sight of the house where his friends were partying.
“The longer you hold the truth in, the guiltier you become… you could help get justice for Noah,” said his sister, Madison Rawlings.
“You might do good and perhaps receive a mercy not given to him, but the longer we sit in silence, the worse it becomes for you.
Video from the night he died showed some of Presgrove’s friends writing their names on his bare buttocks with a marker
“The longer you hold the truth in, the guiltier you become… you could help get justice for Noah,” said his sister Madison Rawlings (pictured together)
Presgrove’s aunt Robyn Smith (center) and grandmother Deborah Smith (right) cried out for answers more than seven months after his death
His family said they were only told he had suffered head trauma but were unsure if that was the cause of death
‘I hope those involved see that we do not give in and that the silence fuels our desire to know more.
‘I miss Noah every day. This is the hardest chapter of my life, but I’m grateful to have a family that doesn’t abandon each other.’
Presgrove’s grandmother Deborah Smith also called on his friends to tell the whole story of what happened the night he died.
“When you think you have friends that you trust with all your heart, and then it comes. Sorry Noah that some of your real friends stabbed you in the back,” she said.
“There’s a piece of my heart missing and every day that goes by and Noah doesn’t come in and still no answer just takes another piece of my heart.”
Presgrove and his friends graduated from Comanche High School a few months earlier, and his family said he planned to join the military
Presgrove was a high school football player until his graduation in May
His aunt Robyn Smith pleaded with anyone with information to at least tell police so his family would have answers seven months later.
“We have lost a wonderful young man because of the terrible choices of others, please do not let us lose justice,” she said.
‘We have heard so many different stories, but we have yet to hear the truth. The whole truth. That we deserve.
“I know it’s scary and I know it’s hard, but we deserve to know what happened. Noah deserves to have his story told. We will not stop searching and asking. We will not stop demanding. It will come true.’