Family pleads for answers in death of young Black man in Mississippi

Body of Nolan Wells, 18, found after he traveled to Horn Island over Fourth of July weekend with three white friends

A mother on Friday pleaded for anyone to come forward with information about what happened to her son, Nolan Wells, a young Black man whose body was found on an island off the coast of Mississippi after he traveled there over the Fourth of July weekend with three white friends.

We just want to know what happened and why our baby didn't come home," Christine Wonsley, choking back tears, said at a news conference about her son.