Questions surrounding death of Nolan Wells

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Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who's representing the family of 18-year-old Nolan Xavier Wells,
shared their intent to conduct an independent autopsy as part of their own separate investigation
into the teen's death. That's following a series of red flags concerning Wells' keys
and his phone. Now, according to Crump, the friend who left Wells on an island off Mississippi's Gulf
Coast took his phone and keys when they departed during the boat trip, and Wells' father shared
that they tried to retrieve his son's keys by knocking on the door where his son's car was
parked. He described his son's friends acting clueless, saying they didn't know where the keys
were at the time, yet within minutes, the keys somehow showed up. Then you have questions that
surround Nolan Wells' phone. His family shared they used an app to track his phone down, and when
a family friend went to pick it up, they reported text messages from social media apps had been
deleted. And on top of that, videos raising even more suspicion are surfacing online. Take a listen.
You hear on the video Nolan saying, give me my freaking phone. What are you freaking doing?
And that becomes even more relevant when you think about the story that they are presenting,
that Nolan chose to stay behind. That's what they're saying. But his phone,
he wouldn't take that with him if he's going to stay behind on the island?
I mean, we're talking about an 18-year-old kid. Yeah, now here's more about the Nolan
Wells case. The 18-year-old student athlete from Mississippi was found dead days after the start
of an Independence Day boat trip to an island off the Mississippi's Gulf Coast shore. Now,
Wells, he was the only black student in that group, yet he did not return from his trip
with his friends that afternoon. And questions remain whether there was foul play involved. Now,
Crump, in that press conference, made a public plea to anyone on the island who may have seen
Nolan during their time there. He asked them to share any information that paints a clearer picture
concerning the teen's death.
