Nolan Wells’ family and their attorneys said they will not give up on finding justice a day after a grand jury found that no criminal charges are warranted in his death, they said at a press conference on Tuesday.
The 18-year-old vanished after he and friends had gone out celebrating the Fourth of July holiday on barrier islands off the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. His body was recovered in the waters off Horn Island two days later.
The Mississippi State medical examiner performed the initial autopsy on Wells’ body. The teen’s family commissioned a private autopsy before results from the state autopsy
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