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Nolan Xavier Wells’ Parents React To Claim That He Willingly Stayed On Horn Island & Reveal His Snapchat Account Appeared Wiped

By Jadriena - 2026/07/10
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Nolan Xavier Wells’ Parents Elmore & Christine Wonsley React To Claim That He Willingly Stayed On Horn Island & Reveal His Snapchat Account Appeared Wiped
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Elmore and Christine Wonsley, the parents of Nolan Xavier Wells, have reacted to the claim that he willingly stayed on Horn Island and also have revealed that his Snapchat account appears to have been wiped.

RELATED: Mom Of Teen Who Was On Horn Island With Nolan Xavier Wells Speaks As Ben Crump Alleges 18-Year-Old Was Involved In “Argument”

Nolan Xavier Wells’ Parents React To Claim That He Willingly Stayed On Horn Island

On Friday, July 10, the parents of Nolan Xavier Wells appeared on ‘Good Morning America’ alongside their attorney, Benjamin Crump. Furthermore, their appearance was shared via the show’s official YouTube account. As the interview commenced, the parents were asked about the claim that their son willingly stayed behind on Horn Island. This, allegedly when the group he traveled there with left.

“That [reason] we cannot answer,” Christine explained. “I can’t fathom why he would.”

Furthermore, Elmore reiterated the same confusion.

“We’ve always taught him that if you go with a group, you stay with a group… If you go with five, you come back with five. Do not separate from the group ’cause I always say safety is in numbers. So he knew to stay with his group. So why would he split from his group? I don’t know,” Elmore explained.

Furthermore, Christine explained that Nolan usually “checked in” with her and Elmore. However, on July 4, he did not. But it did not raise concern because they knew it was his “last weekend to have fun.”

“Because that Monday he had to report to school — he was preparing to for the [camp] season,” Elmore explained, adding that they viewed the weekend as his “last hurrah.”

Parents Elmore & Christine Wonsley Reveal His Snapchat Account Appeared Wiped

At that point, the interview referenced the alleged deleted text messages from Nolan’s phone. As The Shade Room previously reported, Ben Crump revealed the information during a previous interview earlier this week.

Per Christine, after she received a phone call from Warren, a teen who traveled to Horn Island with Nolan, she contacted a friend. Per the mom, her friend’s sons, who were also friends with Nolan, tracked his location on Snapchat.

“The Snapchat location looked completely different than the Life360 location… [the Life 360] was showing everywhere the phone had been. I was like, ‘Well, it’s showing that he’s back on land.’ But [Warren] was like, ‘No, he didn’t come back with us,'” she recalled.

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Per Christine, she and her husband were not given the phone by Nolan’s friends. Instead, they had to track it down and retrieve it from them themselves.

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“And that highlights all these contradictions… The fact that they said Nolan was talking to a young woman, and she said that he said he was going back to get on the boat with the boys. The boys said that he said he was going to stay with her. So that’s an obvious contradiction,” Crump recalled. “And then this video, you can hear an argument where Nolan is saying, ‘Give me my freaking phone! What are you freaking doing?!’ And then his phone ends up missing? I don’t know any teenagers… who say… ‘I’m going to stay behind and I’m going to leave my phone?'”

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Furthermore, Crump also questioned why Nolan’s body allegedly washed up on shore on Monday, July 6 instead of Sunday, July 5.

But that wasn’t all.

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Aound the 8:30 mark, Christine shared that when she retrieved his phone, both of Nolan’s Snapchat accounts had “absolutely nothing.”

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“It wasn’t even 24 hours, which is how long videos and pictures stay in Snapchat. And I was just like, that can’t be… There was absolutely nothing. No saved videos,” she said.

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Colin Kaepernick Apparently Paid For The Late Teen's Indepent Autopsy

Before the interview concluded, Ben Crump revealed that an independent autopsy was done on Nolan. Furthermore, he noted that Colin Kaepernick helped pay for the cost, and Nolan’s body was shipped from Mississippi to Washington D.C.

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“We are doing this because at the end of the day, I would hope any parent would fight for their kids to find out if anything happened — what did happen. We just want honesty and transparency. We want a throrough investigation. We want that same respect that would be given to anybody else. And that’s it. We just want answers,” Christine concluded.

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Per WLOX, Ben Crump held a press conference alongside Rev. Al Sharpton in Harlem at noon on Friday, July 10. The conference reportedly called for a “full, transparent, and urgent investigation” into the death of the 18-year-old.

Additionally, the results of the independent autopsy were expected to be shared. However, Crump explained that Wells’ body was delayed in being transported to Washington D.C. Therefore, the the independent autopsy results will be delayed. However, he plans to give the public “transparency,” and share the results when they become available.

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RELATED: Mississippi NAACP Issues Statement As Authorities Reveal Teen Who Was On Boat With Nolan Xavier Wells Was First To Report Him Missing
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Jadriena Solomon

Jadriena Solomon

Jadriena “Jade” Solomon is a journalist and editor, specializing in beauty, fashion, entertainment, and culture. A graduate of CUNY Brooklyn College’s Journalism and Media Studies program, she began her career in 2015, publishing independent op-ed articles, and has since built a strong digital media portfolio across reporting, editing, and hosting for major media companies. As The Shade Room’s Senior Editor, Jadriena helps lead editorial direction, manages writers and editors, and has contributed more than 2,600 stories with over 45M page views since her start in 2022. Her past roles include contributing and staff positions at HelloBeautiful, Blavity News, 21Ninety, and Bronze Magazine. She has interviewed talents such as Tamron Hall, Eboni K. Williams, Tia Mowry, LeToya Luckett, Salt-N-Pepa, and more.

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