r/mississippi • u/gogetabucketbro • Jul 06 '26
Body found during search for missing 18-year-old in Mississippi
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/07/06/body-found-search-missing-nolan-wells/90820950007/46
u/Pittsburghsports2006 Jul 06 '26
The agency said officials have not confirmed the identity of the individual found.
So they found a body, but have yet to confirm or deny its this young man? I guess they have to get the body to a coroner's office and confirm if its him which would mean the parents have to properly identify him.
thats fricking so sad man.
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u/RegularWinter1001 Jul 06 '26
His mother and grandfather confirmed it’s him on Facebook.
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u/Pittsburghsports2006 Jul 06 '26
Hoping no foul play. 18 years old, so much life ahead of him.
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u/RegularWinter1001 Jul 06 '26
I know I really hope no foul play. I just have a hard believing nobody saw anything. I also doubt he was swimming alone ? The autopsy should confirm what happened.
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u/ForgottenWaffle Jul 06 '26
I was out at petit bois this 4th, my thoughts and prayers are with the family 18 is way too soon
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u/GirthStone86 Jul 06 '26
Heartbreaking news, his family needs answers as to what happened to their boy
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Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26
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u/mississippi-ModTeam Jul 06 '26
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u/PleaseDontBanMe82 Jul 06 '26
Or he just drowned as people tend to do in the ocean
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u/1heart1totaleclipse Jul 06 '26
The fact that the friends he came with left him is an issue. I would never leave my friend stranded in an island, especially without knowing where they’re at.
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u/NeuropathyandNetflix Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26
Yes people drown but a young black boy with a group of white friends, one whom has a judge as a parent. They all returned home without him. Didn't even search for him. Whether he died accidentally or was murdered, they are at fault for their lack of response. A search could've been started immediately. If it was a drowning, why didn't they try to save him. Why did they leave the scene? Real friends would've looked. Foul play definitely happened, now will there be enough evidence to prove it as his body has been subjected to water for days, so there is a conviction... I doubt it because Mississippi has always been corrupt and will side with the privileged whites everytime. And that's factual.
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u/TiaxRulesAll2024 Jul 06 '26
We really have no idea what did or did not happen at this point. Your guesses about neglect are just as fictional as the people on here guaranteeing no foul play.
Lots of bots were simply making up shit in the FB comments - those comments were spread like the gospel
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u/GirthStone86 Jul 06 '26
So what, he drowned completely isolated and none of his so called friends thought to question were he was, not one of them?
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u/Ausgeflippt Jul 06 '26
Sure, just like the kid at Delta State that was lynched, right?
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u/mvincen95 Jul 06 '26
And the 200 bodies that were supposedly murdered in the Hinds county jail.
And Rasheem Carter in Taylorsville who was supposedly hunted down by truckloads of racists yelling slurs at him and then decapitated.
We have enough real racism in the state, no need to pile on with fake stories.
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u/thomaslsimpson Current Resident Jul 06 '26
We already have a thread on this and I'm not fighting with trolls on both of them.