Nolan Wells’ cellphone will undergo a “mutual inspection” by authorities and independent experts after suspicions were raised that content on the device may have been deleted, his family’s lawyer has said.
The 18-year-old did not return with friends from a boat trip to Horn Island off Mississippi’s Gulf Coast on the Fourth of July. His body was found there two days later.
Police have said nothing “yet” points to foul play, but the college football player’s family is conducting their own investigation.
Questions have been raised over why Wells left his phone before his pals returned to shore and whether Snapchat content had been deleted before it was returned to his family.
Wells’ parents, Christine and Elmore Wonsley, and their lawyer, civil rights attorney Ben Crump, met with Jackson County District Attorney Angel McIlrath on Wednesday to discuss the case.
Here’s the latest on the disappearance and death of Mississippi teen Nolan Wells:
“There will be a grand jury that she will turn this case over to once they have collected all the information and finished their investigation,” Crump told a press conference after the meeting at the Jackson County Courthouse in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
“We also agreed that we would have a mutual inspection of the cellphone, with our experts and their experts.”
