Nolan Wells Death Goes to Grand Jury as Attorney Challenges Sheriff's Account

At a July 20 memorial for Nolan Wells, 18, who died after a July 4 Horn Island, Mississippi boat trip, attorney Ben Crump said a witness contradicts the sheriff's claim Wells voluntarily stayed behind. Crump alleged messages were deleted from Wells's phone, found with his friends. The prosecutor agreed to present the completed investigation to a grand jury — a panel that decides whether charges are warranted.