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Nolan Wells Scott Olson/Getty Images A fundraising campaign has been launched on behalf of Nolan Xavier Wells’ friends in anticipation of any potential lawsuits lodged against the teens in wake of the 18-year-old’s still unsolved death.
Beyond defensive measures, the father of Wells’ purported best friend, Warren Hudson, said the money would be used to go after those who “falsely and wrongly blamed” Wells’ friends for having any part in how the Mississippi teen’s body was discovered after spending the Fourth of July out on a boat with friends.
Although the case’s circumstances are still being investigated by local officials, Wells’ death quickly attracted national attention and led to rampant speculation as to how a Black teenager in a mostly white friend group mysteriously disappeared and died in the deep South on what was supposed to be a festive day. Wells’ parents have hired civil rights attorney Ben Crump in their bid for answers and have raised more than $800,000 to fund their own independent investigation.
The fundraiser benefiting Wells’ friends specifically named Warren Hudson, Jax Pitalo and Morgan Seymour as those who had been allegedly “inundated with death threats, threats of violence, and defamation” after they were either known to be with Wells that day and/or seen with photos with him on a boat.
