Two days later, he was found dead. What happened, Wells’ parents say, is a mystery riddled with conflicting stories, implausible explanations and missing details. It is a case shadowed by the state’s fraught racial history and lingering distrust in law enforcement.
At a news conference Friday in New York City, Christine and Elmore Wonsley called for a thorough and transparent investigation into their son’s death, skeptical of claims that Wells told his friends to leave the island without him and suggestions that he, an elite athlete who knew how to swim, had accidentally drowned.
Wells’ body was found early Monday along the shore of Horn Island, about 7 miles (11.2 kilometers) off the Mississippi coast, more than a day after he was last seen alive. The roughly 11-mile long (17.7 kilometer) spit of land is near the Alabama state line. The island is uninhabited and accessible only by boat. About 200 people were there on July 4, the family’s lawyers said.
“We just want to know what happened and why our baby didn’t come home,” Christine Wonsley said, looking upward several times as she stood alongside her lawyer, Ben Crump, and the Rev. Al Sharpton, who will officiate Wells’ funeral.
A’Laisia Spencer:
bro nono didnt get into a fight at the island it was our other friend NONO and WYATT did get into a “altercation” right after that not even 10 minutes later cause wyatt took his phone and evan was tryna be hard nolan was definitely screaming “give me my fuckin phone back nigga wth wrong with you” so they all calm down so that’s when we head to evan house because he was throwing a pool party so yes nono came to the party and yes we was drinking BUT wyatt and evan an morgan and andrew was really high and i think they was tryna get lucy and natalia to try some as well but yes they got into it again at the pool party it didn’t end until almost 1am !!
i know evan mom kicked us all out! once they started fighting it was andrew and evan and wyatt and warren was basically recording and laughing saying get him get him a… See more.
A’Laisia Spencer. 11h
Jaime Albright lol obviously i did that’s how they got his phone bc i called lol.. lol and his phone and keys was on top of his xbox that’s why they requested him to have a private autopsy lol cause once they came to the house evan and warren had deleted everything including the vids nono posted that night and i showed them the pic of all them at the pool party that night!
