{"id":2985,"date":"2026-07-07T13:38:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=2985"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:38:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:38:05","slug":"teen-goes-missing-on-july-4-commenters-blame-his-white-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=2985","title":{"rendered":"Teen Goes Missing On July 4 \u2014 Commenters Blame His White Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A body was discovered Monday morning on Mississippi\u2019s Horn Island as authorities continued an intensive search for 18-year-old Nolan Xavier Wells, an Ocean Springs native and Southwest Mississippi Community College football player who disappeared over the Fourth of July weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A park ranger found the body around 8:45 a.m. on the island and officials say it matches the description of Wells, WLOX reported Monday. <\/span>The Jackson County Coroner Bruce Lynd said DNA testing will officially confirm the identity. Lynd said, \u201cthere is no reason to believe it is not him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wells was last seen around 3 p.m. on July 4 while visiting Horn Island, part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore off Mississippi\u2019s Gulf Coast that brings in a large boating crowd on the holiday, according to NOLA.<\/span><\/p>\n

NOLA reported that Wells had gone to the island with a group of friends and was allegedly seen \u201changing out with a girl before he disappeared.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Jackson County Sheriff\u2019s Department led the search effort with assistance from the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, Gulf Islands National Seashore personnel, the U.S. Coast Guard and volunteer responders from the United Cajun Navy, WLOX reported. (RELATED: Child Rapist Freed By Soros DA Last Seen Running Off With Missing Child)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere were some people that thought he might have wandered off to the middle of the island, maybe into that lake. We sent people up there today, and if he was barefoot, there\u2019s no way he made it up there,\u201d said Brian Trascher with the United Cajun Navy, according to WLOX. \u201cThere\u2019s cactuses and a lot of thorny brush. He would not have comfortably been able to make it to the middle of the island. He probably would\u2019ve turned around and went to the beach.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christine Wonsley, Wells\u2019 mother, also assisted in the search by posting to social media Sunday explaining that her son had been separated from his phone and asking for any pictures or videos people have of him from the island.<\/span><\/p>\n

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