Nolan Wells independent autopsy doesn't point to foul play, former medical examiner says

Attorney Ben Crump revealed that the results of an autarkic autopsy into Nolan Wells' decease are "inconclusive" arsenic a erstwhile aesculapian examiner said the findings aren't accordant with a "cover up" oregon immoderate wrongdoing.

Crump announced the autarkic autopsy's results connected Wednesday astatine the NAACP National Convention successful Chicago, stating that an country of "red discoloration" was recovered connected Wells' head. He said Dr. Roger Mitchell, who performed the autopsy, couldn't travel to a decision "pending further investigation." The authoritative autopsy hasn't yet been completed.

"Why is this acheronian reddish present successful the backmost of his head?" Crump said. "This pathologist cannot regularisation retired if immoderate intervening non-accidental factors contributed to oregon caused the decease of Nolan Wells."

When asked by Fox News Digital astir the case, forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden said the caput wounded doesn't constituent to foul play.

"So that could beryllium from bumping into thing successful the water. There's a batch of debris successful the water, for example. It depends however heavy it is, but it's describing a truly superficial interaction that could person happened earlier decease oregon aft death," Baden said.

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Nolan Wells smiles connected the tract portion playing wide receiver for Southwest Mississippi Community College. (Christine Wonsley/Facebook)

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"What he's describing is simply a insignificant wounded that could be... wholly innocent," Baden said.

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Nolan Xavier Wells disappeared connected the Fourth of July portion boating with friends, according to authorities. (Jackson County Sheriff's Department via Facebook)

Baden said Mitchell was "reaching for straws" successful the autarkic autopsy report, adding that the findings are accordant with accounts from section instrumentality enforcement that his decease was accidental and nary foul play was involved.

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Wells, 18, initially disappeared July 4 aft helium went with friends connected a vessel travel to Horn Island, which is simply a obstruction land disconnected Mississippi's Gulf Coast. Officials and hunt crews searched for 2 days earlier a National Park Service ranger located his assemblage connected July 6 portion connected the island's northwestern tip.

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Attorney Ben Crump speaks astatine a property league extracurricular the national courthouse connected July 15, 2020, successful Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Getty Images)

Officials haven't released a origin of decease arsenic officials proceed to investigate.