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Special Report: Nolan Wells Independent Autopsy Results Are In · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: I Mimi Brown and today is Wednesday, July twenty second,
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  Speaker 1: and this is a special edition of Front Page with
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  Speaker 1: new developments and the investigation into the death of eighteen
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  Speaker 1: year old Nolan Wells. After weeks of questions, Nolan Wells
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  Speaker 1: family has the first findings from an independent autopsy, but
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  Speaker 1: instead of proving clear answers, the report raises new questions
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  Speaker 1: about what happened to the eighteen year old college football player.
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  Speaker 1: Civil rights attorney Ben Crump stood alongside Wells's parents Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: to release the preliminary findings from an independent autopsy conducted
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  Speaker 1: by forensic pathologist doctor Roger Mitchell, president of the National
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  Speaker 1: Medical Association. According to doctor Mitchell's report, which attorney Crump
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  Speaker 1: presented during today's press conference, investigators still have not determined
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  Speaker 1: exactly how Nolan Wells died. Here's part of what Crump
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  Speaker 1: had to say.
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  Speaker 2: Cause of death undetermined penned in investigation, the manner of
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  Speaker 2: death undetermined hind an investigation.
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  Speaker 1: The report also raises questions about Nolan's neck. The independent
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  Speaker 1: pathologist said he could not rule out injuries to the
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  Speaker 1: throat or neck as the cause or contributing factor in
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  Speaker 1: Nolan's death because that portion of the autonomy had already
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  Speaker 1: been removed during the original autopsy, making it impossible to
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  Speaker 1: examine independently.
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  Speaker 2: He was missing his throat when they received the body,
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  Speaker 2: and he wants to know why they held it back.
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  Speaker 2: He's not drawing any conclusions, but he said he would
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  Speaker 2: want to examine it if there were net fractious or
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  Speaker 2: compressions to the neck, and he thinks that's significant to
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  Speaker 2: know at autopsy. The last thing that is significant is
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  Speaker 2: what we said before about him, the condition of his
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  Speaker 2: body when he went into the water. Was he conscious
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  Speaker 2: or unconscious? Was he forced or unforced into the water.
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  Speaker 2: He said those things are very significant, But he started
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  Speaker 2: off talking about this red discoloration in the back of
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  Speaker 2: his head is something that was a great concern to him.
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  Speaker 1: Crump also highlighted another detail from the investigation, saying Nolan
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  Speaker 1: was reportedly found face down and fully clothed, despite photographs
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  Speaker 1: from earlier that day showing him wearing swim trunks.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's significant to us because the last time we
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  Speaker 2: saw him on the videos, he was without a shirt.
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  Speaker 2: So at what point did he put on a shirt?
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  Speaker 2: Somebody saw something, somebody knows something. There were almost three
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  Speaker 2: hundred four hundred people. Somebody know something.
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  Speaker 1: The report also identifies several questions investigators say still need answers.
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  Speaker 2: Number one, we're what were the circumstances that led to
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  Speaker 2: Nolan Xavier Wells and in the water? Number two? What
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  Speaker 2: was the body position when it was found? Number three?
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  Speaker 2: Where is there water in the airway? Number four? Is
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  Speaker 2: there any evidence of injuries to the anterior neck structure?
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  Speaker 2: We got the body without his neck at the time
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  Speaker 2: of the second autopsy. Number five, is there any evidence
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  Speaker 2: of any enterpranial hemorrhagen? He said, that is going to
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  Speaker 2: be very significant things that he could not observe at
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  Speaker 2: autops so that the initial medical examiner would have been
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  Speaker 2: able to observe. Number six, what was the composition of
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  Speaker 2: the stomach contents? How long had he been in the water,
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  Speaker 2: how long had he been since his last meal? All
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  Speaker 2: those things become relevant factors. And number seven, what are
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  Speaker 2: the tosicology report findings? For these these reasons, this pathologist
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  Speaker 2: cannot rule out if any intervening, non accidental factors contributed
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  Speaker 2: to or cause the death of Nolan Wells. Understand he's saying,
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  Speaker 2: based on the examination of the body, he cannot rule
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  Speaker 2: out foul.
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  Speaker 1: Play, and as you may remember, Nolan Wells disappeared after
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  Speaker 1: a fourth of July voting trip to Horn Island, Mississippi.
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  Speaker 1: Others on the trip returned to shore without him. Two
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  Speaker 1: days later, his body was recovered and the waters near
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  Speaker 1: the island. His family commissioned the independent autopsy after saying
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  Speaker 1: they believe too many questions remained unanswered. The examination was
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  Speaker 1: performed in Washington, d C. After Wells's body was transported
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  Speaker 1: there at the family's request. The investigation remains active and
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  Speaker 1: officials are still awaiting additional forensic evidence, including the state's
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  Speaker 1: official autopi, before determining exactly how Nolan Wells died. I
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  Speaker 1: Mimi Brown and This has been a special breaking news
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