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Reward Surges to $175K in Mysterious Death of Mississippi Football Star Nolan Wells | Crime Alert 08.01.26 · Crime Alert Hourly Update

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Sidney Silvanni.
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  Speaker 1: It has been twenty five days since the body of
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  Speaker 1: eighteen year old high school football star Nolan Wells was
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  Speaker 1: recovered on Horn Island, a picturesque getaway off the Mississippi coast,
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  Speaker 1: where the Ocean Springs teenager went by boat to celebrate
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  Speaker 1: the fourth of July. Wells never returned home that evening,
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  Speaker 1: triggering a massive multi agency search before his body was
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  Speaker 1: found on July sixth. The case has drawn national attention
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  Speaker 1: and widespread online speculation after photo surface showing Wells, who
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  Speaker 1: was black, with white friends on the boat that day.
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  Speaker 1: High profile attorney Ben Crump represents Wells' parents, Elmore and
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  Speaker 1: Christine Wansley. The Jackson County Sheriff's Department leads the investigation,
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  Speaker 1: while District Attorney Angel Meyers McIlrath confirmed case details will
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  Speaker 1: remain sealed until presented to a grand jury. With official updates,
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  Speaker 1: limited frustration mounts across the Mississippi Coast as unverified claims
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  Speaker 1: spread across the inner National interest has intensified following significant
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  Speaker 1: financial reward pledges actor Tyler Perry and civil rights figure
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  Speaker 1: Reverend al Sharpton each offered fifty thousand dollars for information
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  Speaker 1: leading to an arrest, an announcement Sharpton made alongside the
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  Speaker 1: Wansley family during Wells's funeral. Former NFL wide receiver Terrell
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  Speaker 1: Owens pledged an additional twenty five thousand dollars. Now, doctor
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  Speaker 1: Benjamin Hudson, whose son Warreck, was on Horn Island with Nolan,
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  Speaker 1: on one of three votes that day Matt Sharpton's fifty
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars offer, bringing the total reward to one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and seventy five thousand dollars. Doctor Hudson explained he offered
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  Speaker 1: the money to bring justice to the Wells family and
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  Speaker 1: counter harmful rumors, revealing his family received thousands of death threats. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: attorney Russell Latino announced he is preparing defamation lawsuits on
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  Speaker 1: behalf of another teenager who was on the island while
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  Speaker 1: serving a cease and desist letter to influencer Kimbria Lee.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking Thursday at the National Urban Large League Annual Conference,
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  Speaker 1: Christine Wansley made an urgent plea for witnesses to contact
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  Speaker 1: Ben Crump's law firm. Just know we will not be described.
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  Speaker 1: We are ready to do whatever we need to do
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  Speaker 1: as his parents, to continue advocate for him because Nolan
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  Speaker 1: is not here. He is not here to the street
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  Speaker 1: for himself. He is not here to tell us what happened.
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  Speaker 1: So again, we will not rest until we get answers.
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  Speaker 1: And if you know something, you need to let us know.
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  Speaker 1: That impassioned appeal from Christine Wansley highlights the agonizing weight
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  Speaker 1: for answers that continues to grip the Ocean Springs community.
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  Speaker 1: More crime and justice news after this. In New Mexico,
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  Speaker 1: a landmark ruling has delivered a major blow to prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: in the murder case against former high school cheerleader Alexi Treviso.
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  Speaker 1: In a unanimous decision, the justices of the New Mexico
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Court ruled that body camera footage and incriminating statements
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  Speaker 1: Treviso made inside her hospital room cannot be used at
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  Speaker 1: trial due to doctor patient confidentiality. The high school senior
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  Speaker 1: arrived at Artegia General Hospital complaining of severe back pain
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  Speaker 1: in the early morning hours of January twenty seventh, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three, where staff administered morphine while awaiting test results.
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  Speaker 1: Treviso used the bathroom and a cleaning crew member later
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  Speaker 1: discovered a heavy trash bag containing a dead newborn baby.
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  Speaker 1: When doctor Heather Vaskis entered the room accompanied by police
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  Speaker 1: officers to disclose the discovery, body camera footage captured Treviso's
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  Speaker 1: reaction as she admitted placing the infant in the trash bag.
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  Speaker 1: We discovered a dead baby in the bathroom. Oh my gosh, Surry, LEXI,
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  Speaker 1: I told you about this. I just asked you baby
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  Speaker 1: to tell me the truth. Dage was not what did
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  Speaker 1: you do to it? In terms, I'm sorry about this,
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  Speaker 1: but in terms of delivering a baby and it looked
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  Speaker 1: like you tried to hide it. We do have to
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  Speaker 1: have the police involved. Nothing was crime. It came out
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  Speaker 1: with that thing. Justice Michael Vigil wrote that doctor Vasquez
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  Speaker 1: ambushed Treviso without authorization by bringing armed officers into the
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  Speaker 1: room and disclosing medical information during an unresolved medical crisis.
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  Speaker 1: Because Treviso was in a compromised medical condition, the court
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  Speaker 1: ruled her physician patient privilege was not voluntarily waived. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 1: must now rebuild their first degree murder case without the
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  Speaker 1: hospital surveillance footage, body camera recordings, or the teenager's statements.
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  Speaker 1: Despite autopsy findings indicating the infant had air in his
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  Speaker 1: lungs and suffered hypoxia consistent with breathing after birth. In California,
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  Speaker 1: a twenty three year old man faces murder charges in
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  Speaker 1: connection with the shooting death of his mother, whose body
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  Speaker 1: was discovered hidden inside her vehicle. The Orange County District
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  Speaker 1: Attorney's Office announced that sixty one year old Teresa Jones
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  Speaker 1: was found dead on July eleventh in the passenger seat
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  Speaker 1: of her car parked outside the Fullerton church. Jones was
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  Speaker 1: reported missing on July seventh after failing to pick up
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  Speaker 1: her grandchild in missing repeated phone calls. Authorities alleged her son,
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  Speaker 1: Emmanuel Wesley, shot her on July fourth, directly outside the
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  Speaker 1: Fullerton Police Department. Surveillance video captured Jones driving up to
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  Speaker 1: the station before slumping over behind the wheel. Investigator say
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  Speaker 1: Wesley exited, pushed his mother into the passenger seat, and
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  Speaker 1: drove off. Jones, a devoted mother and grandmother affectionately nicknamed
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  Speaker 1: Cardi b By loved Ones for bringing joy and laughter,
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  Speaker 1: suffered two gunshot wounds to her back. Wesley pleaded not
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  Speaker 1: guilty to fell any murder and a firearm enhancement For
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  Speaker 1: crime alert. I'm Sydney Silvanni