Nolan Wells Family TELLS ALL, Exposes Information, Missing Keys, And More - HP News

[0:01] Good afternoon. To my right are the parents of Nolan Wells, and we'll hear from them, [0:10] and of course, Attorney of Black America, Ben Crump, and Attorney Park, you'll hear from. [0:19] I want to thank, let me say at the outset, that when I received the word of what happened to [0:28] Nolan and began hearing what was pieced together, it is clear that this situation must have the most [0:43] thorough and objective investigation to lead to justice. What we've been told does not make sense, [0:56] and being that there is lack of confidence in the local authorities who have already, [1:05] in my judgment, seem to have mishandled where it was going. Because to just immediately, [1:13] before a week time, saying there was nothing done wrong, when we hear that this young man was engaged [1:23] in some kind of argument that was on tape, that his cell phone and keys ended up with one of the people [1:32] that were there on the island and got away. He was one black with three young white men, who happened [1:40] to end up with his phone, happened to end up with his keys. There's just too many questions that they [1:48] should not be closing the investigation. Now, I'm from Brooklyn, so I'm a little different than some of [1:56] y'all. I was built different. My nose is out here, my eyes are here, my brain is here, which means some [2:04] things I could smell before I could see and before I can figure out. This does not smell right. So some [2:12] people are saying, Reverend, are y'all bringing in race? Well, we're not bringing in race, but we're not [2:20] discounting race either, because we don't know what it is. So to tell us, don't rush to judgment saying it was [2:28] not racism, because we do not know. We do know what these parents are being told and what the parents [2:41] have now shared with us does not make sense. How do you end up? A young, promising football player, not [2:51] in trouble, mother and daddy at home, everything we tell them to do and be. They go on the 4th of July, [3:01] on the anniversary of this country, going to our island. We're outing with his friends, and the [3:07] friends come back, and he's left there with some story about, he said, leave them behind. But then, [3:15] by some magic, one of the friends has his keys and his phone. Mind you, his mother tracked down the [3:24] phone. They didn't voluntarily tell her they had his phone. They didn't voluntarily say they had the keys. [3:32] So if they had not been tracked down, we don't know if they ever would have known [3:36] where it was. Some of this doesn't make sense. So we are absolutely a National Action Network and [3:44] other groups going to rally behind this family. I have told them that whatever we can and need to do, [3:52] we will do it because this smacks of some of the worst fears that we've had historically, not only in [4:01] Mississippi, but in this country. And we are there until the end with them. I've been asked by the [4:08] family to be in Mississippi for the funeral to officiate, which I'm going to do. We just got off the [4:17] phone with Tyler Perry, the actor who says he wants to help cover whatever expenses for the funeral. [4:23] We have with us Spike Lee is in the house. Many of our people that have always supported families are [4:30] there. This is not about them trying to raise money. We're going to take care of that. This is about [4:37] though they've got to keep going forward. But we want justice. And let the chips fall where they may. [4:44] If it ends up being one way that we suspect was wrong, fine. But if it's another way, don't back up [4:53] and play games with this. They are not activists or lawyers. So they only want justice for their son. [5:02] I'm an activist. When we get there and they say we heating things up, that's what we do. Because [5:09] sometimes you got to make people sweat to get the poison out of their system. I'm the sweat man. And [5:17] they are the parents that want to see justice for their son. Let me let you hear from Christine and [5:23] Elmer Wansley and then Attorney Crump. Let them. Okay, Attorney Crump and then we hear from the parents. [5:32] Thank you Reverend Al for always answering the bell as you have done on so many occasions when [5:49] families get the worst news of their life. And make no mistake about it, Christine and Elmer got the [5:59] worst news of their life on what was supposed to be a joyous occasion where everybody was celebrating [6:07] the 4th of July weekend. I'm Attorney Ben Crump along with Attorney Liza Park and Jared Preston [6:16] and Camila Moore. We have the honor and the privilege of helping to lead an independent [6:23] investigation on behalf of the family of Nolan Wells. Why do you say we need to be retained to lead an [6:34] independent investigation? It is because the family has distrust of the Mississippi law enforcement [6:45] officials giving them a fair investigation where their black son ended up dead after going out on a [6:57] boat with three young white men. The history of Mississippi is something that they don't just [7:06] read about in books but it's a lived experience for many black Americans that oftentimes when our [7:17] children are killed in highly questionable situations that there is this notion that oh it was nothing wrong, [7:29] no foul play, let's just sweep it under the rug. Well we refuse to sweep it under the rug. We [7:36] refuse to just let Nolan Wells' death be in vain. We are going to make sure that we get to the truth, [7:46] the whole truth, and nothing but the truth because Nolan deserves it. You're going to hear his mother and [7:54] father talk about what a wonderful young man he was. I mean doing everything right. Reverend Al, he was [8:03] not only a college student he was a great athlete he was a model big brother for his brothers and little [8:12] brothers and sisters and he was a great son who was on the cusp of becoming a man. I mean Christina [8:22] Elmore did everything to prepare him for this moment. He was so close he was right there. You're going to hear [8:30] his father talk about him having a good football season last year but this season he was really ready [8:38] to go to the next level to go to division one. I mean the highlights that you're seeing on social media [8:45] of his athletic proudness. I mean it is it is all relevant because when you start talking about [8:53] uh drowning I mean this is a kid who knew how to swim. This is a kid who was in tip-top shape. He was a [9:02] superior athlete and so I'm going to get to that in a moment these glaring contradictions but to try to [9:09] say oh we're suggesting it was just an accidental drowning go ahead and move on. Well they they are not [9:17] accepting it they are not accepting it they want to know that you have not taken the path of least [9:26] resistance that you have done a full complete thorough impartial investigation because it it it cannot be [9:42] lost on anybody but especially us in the black community. If the roles were reversed and you had [9:52] three young black men on a boat with a young white man and that young white man ended up dead what [10:05] kind of investigation would be being conducted by the Mississippi law enforcement officials? How many times [10:13] would those three young black men be interrogated? So all we're asking is the same consideration you [10:24] would have given if the roles were reversed give that consideration to this family as well. That is our [10:33] fight. The glaring contradictions I just jump out at you. The fact that he is there with his friends and [10:45] you look at all the videos it seems to be he's the only black on the island or maybe one other but not many. And so [10:58] Jared you have where a young woman he was talking to says that well Nolan said he was going back to get on the [11:10] boat with the boys. The boys say that Nolan told them he was going to stay [11:21] and talk to the young woman. It's a contradiction. They're not saying the same thing. One of them is telling [11:34] the truth. One of them is not. We have to get to the bottom of that. It's important. And then the fact [11:42] Reverend Al that they have this video of an argument that is going on and and you know thank god all young [11:54] people of people they have cell phones and anytime you hear people raising their voice they start the [12:00] video. And so you hear on the video Nolan saying give me my freaking phone. What are you freaking doing? [12:11] And that becomes even more relevant when you think about the story that they are presenting that Nolan [12:21] chose to stay behind. That's what they're saying. But his phone he wouldn't take that with them if [12:32] he's going to stay behind on the island. I mean we're talking about an 18 year old kid. What teenager [12:39] would leave their phone behind if they're going to stay on this island? What teenager wouldn't take [12:48] their phone? And so it's not adding up. It's not adding up at all. The fact as Reverend Al said you know [12:58] they didn't take his phone with them. His mother when she finds out that her baby is missing they start [13:12] trying to track the phone. GPS the phone they've used life 360 and they discover that well the phone is [13:21] on land. The phone is on land but you said he went missing on the island and so it's not adding up. [13:32] And so they go get the phone and you'll hear her tell herself when her and her sister start going [13:39] through his phone. Jared they they realize that they're deleted messages so they're trying to figure [13:46] out well why are they deleted messages on his phone? I mean it becomes relevant when you start putting [13:53] everything together where we can't just say oh there's no instance of foul play. We're going to get [14:00] to the truth one way or the other. The fact that and this this really makes no sense to me Reverend Al. [14:12] This notion that where he drowned y'all have I'm sure seen all the videos out there. I mean if he's drowning [14:23] nobody sees him drown nobody offers assistance nobody tries to help him I mean obviously he stands [14:34] out he's I think the only black person I saw when I'm looking at the videos and if you see him drowning [14:41] you mean nobody is going to try to help him it's not adding up it is not adding up and that's why [14:50] um the family at their behest we had an independent autopsy being performed um and we thank Colin Kaepernick [15:04] for helping to pay for that independent autopsy and we thank Tyler Perry for uh helping to pay for the [15:11] funeral because as Reverend Al said these were just uh regular parents going about their life they [15:18] weren't expecting any of this and then we're having to try to hire these experts to be able to go and [15:26] see if they can retrieve deleted messages we have to have experts you'll hear from attorney part talk [15:33] about um you know where the body came was found when it was recovered and how long it took to be recovered [15:42] we think all of those are relevant issues to trying to understand what really happened to Nolan Wells [15:51] and this independent autopsy is so very important because we had his body flown from Mississippi to [16:03] Washington DC because his family wanted to make sure that they had a doctor who had no ties to Mississippi [16:13] law enforcement to do an independent examination of their son's body and we are hopeful to get that [16:24] results uh in the very near future we were hoping we would have had it today however as you all know [16:31] here in New York they canceled all the flights yesterday and so it took a long time for his body to get to [16:39] the medical examiner's office in Washington DC but rest assured as soon as we get those results we will [16:48] make them uh known to you because we believe transparency is very important we we want to [16:56] lead by example we want them to be transparent and we want to be transparent we know they are conducted [17:02] the autopsy we are waiting on their results as well um the final thing i will say is this if there are any [17:13] people who are on that island any young people who recorded videos who witnessed things who may have saw [17:24] Nolan at the anytime on that island please please please let us know please call [17:36] uh Ben Crump dot com called 800 number just any information they are desperate we're in a ferocious pursuit [17:50] for the truth and y'all if it was your child wouldn't you want everybody who knew something to let you all know [18:03] um this is a hard one rail because it's so it's so tragic on so many levels um well before we bring the [18:15] parents up why don't we have attorney Lisa Park uh who is helping head of the investigation with our office [18:25] my name is Lisa Park i'm the senior attorney um for the Ben Crump law office in Atlanta uh it is [18:33] our honor to work with the family to try to find answers in this case i think that most of you at [18:43] this point are aware of Ben Crump law and many of the cases that we represent in this country some of [18:53] these cases you don't know anything about until we get involved and we shed some light and we explain to [19:03] the media what has happened and you all let America know what has happened sometimes cases come and you [19:16] all already know about it this is one of those cases i saw this in the news before i got a call from Ben [19:29] this was already huge in social media already out in general media why why because it doesn't take an [19:43] attorney it doesn't take a special investigator it doesn't take someone with extreme training to know [19:52] right off there's something wrong here this is as Ben has put it not adding up it is so [20:04] obvious there are so many people in this country that go missing right everybody knows this but this [20:15] case has captured everybody's attention think about why you know that something is not right it doesn't [20:24] take us it doesn't take the Reverend Al Sharpton Ben Crump to tell you and then think oh now i know [20:34] something's wrong we know something is wrong and for every single person that was in Horn Island and we [20:43] know there's about 200 people there's a lot of people we know that Horn Island is a popular place during [20:51] the holidays it's a popular place on the weekends you have to get there by boat it's the only way to get [20:58] there you have to leave by boat it's the only way to leave so many people out there if you are watching [21:10] this if you see this and you are struggling about what to say or what to do you know what the right [21:19] thing to do is call Ben Crump Law there's this thing called the internet it's very easy to find that [21:30] number call us we have an entire call center they are waiting to hear from you if you didn't go to [21:39] Horn Island but you've heard something because people are talking they're talking with each other [21:47] they may not be calling the police they may not be calling us but you heard something we need to know [21:54] that we need to know that in America today so many of us we want to believe that the last several [22:06] decades we've made so much progress in our race relations don't we we want to believe that whether [22:12] you're black or you're white or you're Asian that's what we want to believe we wanted to believe that [22:19] this past fourth of July when we celebrated 250 years right if you want to believe that you've got [22:28] to be part of the solution you've got to be part of that you have to make it happen and you if you have [22:37] information please call us it is incredibly important people out there you have answers you may not know [22:46] exactly what your information means but if you saw something say something please all right we're going [23:02] to hear from the parents and then we'll have Q&A and what I want is when we go to the media identify [23:11] yourself and your outlet so we know who is speaking and let me say again that we're standing with this [23:21] family until the very end and make sure we're dealing with justice let's first hear from the mother [23:28] Christine Wansley first of all I want to say thank you everyone um for being here this is not how I wanted [23:43] the world to meet my son but here we are um so as you know I'm Christine Wells Wansley I am Nolan [23:52] Wansley's mom and Nolan was is the kindest soul he never met a stranger he loved everybody he didn't [24:11] care if you were black white purple green looked like a marshmallow like he just wanted everyone [24:20] to be in peace with one another um he just he loved life and God gave him this big heart which [24:31] always scared us me and his dad had conversations with him all the time not just about the importance of [24:42] understanding our history as black people but also the importance of how you have to move in certain [24:51] spaces and it's not us being well feeding into racism or the you know the stereotypes that comes with [25:05] that unfortunately that is just a matter of fact there have been many cases many instances [25:14] that shows it it's unfortunately a pattern that he did not like he did not like that there was so [25:22] much division and I think that's why God gave him us he was really a peacemaker he wanted like I said [25:30] everyone to be included he never wanted to leave anyone out he just even at a young age um I don't know [25:40] he was how old was he no no not 18 so his father and I were having a moment [25:52] and as couples do and even in that moment he runs in the room with his diaper of course and he starts dancing [26:04] because it was like he could feel the tension he could feel that something wasn't right so he's just [26:13] he was just a special kid like he was a special kid but again just heart was so big and I'm good we're [26:28] gonna miss him dearly um but we um we are grateful especially to our friend uh Tashima who actually was one [26:40] of the people um who helped us that night she went and picked up his cell phone from where it was [26:47] and then provided that to us because we were we of course contacted authorities to figure out who to [26:57] do the report with whether it was the county or the city which then turned into dmr who i contacted [27:05] immediately from there and you know but so um our friend actually we when i called her nolan is best [27:18] friends with her two sons jalen and javon when i called her i said to Tashima have you seen nolan he's [27:25] missing no one has seen him no one has talked to him the boys were actually with her her sons so they [27:31] open up their snapchat because a lot of the kids do have their locations where they're tracking one another [27:38] so one of the boys says well it's showing that i think i can't exactly remember what his location [27:46] was showing but my life 360 location was showing something completely different it was actually [27:53] showing that his phone was like he was on land and and so we ended up she received the phone from that [28:03] parent and then we met up where his car was which was at a separate location there were issues obtaining [28:11] the key but even so there was just a lot of tell them about so i'm gonna let my husband tell you about [28:21] that because he actually went up to the door to get the key because at that point i was just not in my [28:28] right mind um this has just been an awful situation terrible elmore warnsley the father okay so the [28:41] situation with the key when we got to the house um a few of his friends they were already there and they [28:48] were at the door in the house um asking questions so when i walked up they were getting you know things [28:57] again kind of tense so i turned to them and told me i need you guys to calm down i need i don't do this [29:02] to me right now i need them to kind of trust me so i can they can give me something so i was able to [29:08] calm them down so the guy that's he's in one of the pictures he came out of room half asleep or whatever [29:18] however uh i think jacks or whatever and i said look i'm nolan's father i'm here to get his keys [29:25] um so i can get his car i said uh he's like his car was in the yard his car is parked in the yard [29:31] so he was like uh i don't know man i know it's like my brother i said well if nolan was like your [29:36] brother would you please go in your room and say if you can find my son's keys so i can take his car [29:40] home he walks off two or three minutes come back i can't find the keys i said okay so at that point [29:48] i get the boys and i get moved them out the house because i didn't want them to go into the house and [29:52] start tearing up these people's houses because they'd never be a whole new situation she'll walk [29:57] outside by the car one of the guys that was in the house with us he was on the phone with a girl and [30:03] the girl told him that nolan's keys were on top of this jacks guy's xbox in the house because apparently [30:10] she was there with him earlier so he goes back up to the door by herself and five minutes later the [30:17] keys come out so now i feel like you done lied to me so now i'm really like in distrust with you [30:25] but as far as that night goes um if i knew anyone who had a boat i would have went out that night [30:34] looking for my son we tried but i just i don't have i don't have friends with boats but if i knew [30:42] someone with one i would have went out that night and this so happened that his coach saw all the [30:47] stuff on facebook that next morning and called and contacted me like five in the morning asked me [30:52] did we want to go out and i told him yes so within an hour he was at the dock we met him and we went [30:58] out we docked the boat got off the boat walked on the island walked a pretty nice stretch came back [31:05] got back on the boat went around the island look came back around and where we went to the that's [31:14] where apparently they say that his body floated up i don't know a lot about water currents over there but [31:22] i would have i would think that we would have saw his body and on the trip there there was a family [31:33] that stayed a night on the island like actually tending out on the island so if he was left he [31:41] would have saw that family on the island and it was two of the boats docked so he would have had help [31:46] so i i just i don't know i don't know i think we stayed there for like an hour hour and a half that's [31:55] when um jackson county and the sheriff department uh showed up and they were going to do their rounds [32:03] and i had a classmate of mine he and his two boys they came out and they searched and then they got back [32:09] and touched me and said the coast guard finally showed up in airplane so the what is so critical [32:17] what elmore is saying is they went out on sunday and they're tired if it brought his body up he went [32:27] missing on july 4th as they say his body should have been there on july 5th why would it not appear to [32:35] july 6th and that's one of those things that's just not adding up and the fact that if he stayed behind [32:45] on the island there were boats there there were people somebody had to see something that's why [32:54] it's not adding up and that's that's what they're saying it's just not adding up and if he was there [33:02] two days somebody on the island would be able to verify that uh two days and nobody's come forward [33:09] and say no he was with us i know we saw him it just does not make sense make it make sense [33:18] just one last thing uh we want her to talk about the cell phone deleted messages i'm sorry i thought [33:28] my voice was loud enough uh one last thing we want to have christine talk about the cell phone [33:37] um from her perspective uh before they uh tell you who nolan was and then we'll take your questions [33:48] so when we made it home my sister and i actually went through nolan's cell phone um particularly [33:57] snapchat because that is so popular with the children um and when we opened it up there was nothing [34:06] there were no saved pictures there were no um snaps from that day and we did open it before the 20 24 [34:16] hour expiration um so we found that very concerning only because anyone who's ever been around nolan will [34:26] tell you at social gatherings he's taking videos he's taking pictures he's even come up to me when i'm [34:34] getting ready to go to bed hey ma come on take a picture of me you know like he's just that's that was nolan [34:41] um so that's why we feel that things may have been deleted was because the fact that there was nothing [34:51] in either one of his accounts um but i do want to say this i would hope that any parent who god forbid [35:04] would be in our situation i would hope that you would do the same thing i i would hope that you [35:12] would ask for any help receive any help to get answers because at the end of the day that that's [35:22] all we want we just want to know we just want to know what happened and why our baby didn't come home [35:32] like that that's our biggest thing and we are so grateful to everyone family friends uh classmates [35:41] united cajun navy um everybody that's assisted us we we appreciate you there's not enough thank yous [35:50] um that we could say or give to you but i just you know we just want to know we want an honest [35:57] thorough investigation that that's all we're asking for do you want to say about who nolan was and then [36:10] nolan nolan is a person with a big heart he's loved by not just his family but the community um he's a [36:25] he's a born people person um he he really developed a bond with it with his baby brother because both [36:36] both of them play the same position so he was really understanding the business side of the sport [36:44] which is football and understand that it's not just a game you're playing so the stuff that i was telling [36:51] him it was kind of starting to sink into him and he was no no really getting more in depth into it and [36:57] i could see as he did that his baby brother really started getting more into it as well as far as being [37:04] more focused because he saw well if my big brother is about to go do this great thing then i want to [37:10] do this great thing but i want to do it better that's why that's what made them so like like vinegar [37:16] or they just they it was like they was always at each other but they were the same um when i look at [37:25] my youngest i'll say nolan or when i look at nolan i'll say my youngest name so they were trained [37:33] together i would always say hey you did some push-ups you need to run some routes um and they [37:40] know when i say that next day they're right there running routes even my other son he'll go out there [37:45] he doesn't play that position but he will go out there and and work and exercise and work out because [37:50] they were understanding what i was talking about they were growing they were becoming men [37:54] so this was his this was his time he would always talk to me i always give him my advice [38:01] about stuff i always try to tell him what to look for and i was always telling him i said so i'm [38:06] giving you this advice and i'm telling you this stuff but you're going to have to experience this [38:12] but when you experience it it won't be foreign to you you'll have some kind of idea how to navigate [38:17] through it and i think me and his mother i think we did a great job with that that's why it's so hard [38:23] for me to believe that he would choose to stay on the island it just wasn't in his care it wasn't his [38:29] character so nolan is is is the funniest kid in our family uh speaking of the uh in the time she [38:41] was talking about yeah we we were having a kind of heated moment and i don't know if you guys remember [38:47] um the little dance called stanky lid uh i think my son created it because we we were sitting in that [38:56] closet looking and just like talking he literally came to the closet door like and peeked around [39:04] and stood in front of him and just just started doing this little crazy dance and i was like [39:09] we just bust out like whatever was talking about we stopped laughing then we called them to us and [39:13] we just hugged and laughed and played but then uh maybe what six months later the song is a hit [39:21] um but we always said he would keep creating the stanky leg dance but uh that's that's my greatest [39:26] memory of my son what are you telling your other children about this um my son ethan he's he's hurting [39:36] um he's um these are the ones that these are the younger ones um he's like dad i don't know what i'm [39:45] do and and i'm like son you got to keep going because he would want to he would want you to be [39:50] better uh his youngest brother elmore the one that really uh worked out with him he's he was like i'm [39:56] hurting dad but i said nola wants you to be the best he can be he want he would want you to outdo him [40:03] and whenever you feel like you're in a bind or or or having some kind of problem call on your brother [40:11] talk to your brother um my twins they they're the loss of a younger sibling is is hurting them [40:21] they have to figure out how to navigate through life without them and my daughter carly with her [40:27] being away is really hard for her because she's not around family now so she's out on you know doing [40:34] life doing life like life does but she's doing it on her own so she's has she has to do this by [40:41] herself we're here you know by phone but we're not there in person so she she really has to draw on [40:48] the people that surround her when she's not home so all together my family this is going to be our new [40:55] norm he was the jester in my court and yeah he will be missed great not by us but by the whole community [41:06] we will announce the funeral services when it is finalized and we'll be going to help uh with the [41:18] our officiator at the funeral in uh mississippi again we'll take your questions but identify who you [41:27] are and uh please be respectful the families in mourning but because they want justice for their [41:34] son they came in new york to make this appeal but uh let's not make this a circus yes [42:14] say that last question yeah yeah well i i yeah you are the second one is other children who are saying [42:30] it was nolan yeah so the last time we spoke and saw nolan was july the third um he actually cooked dinner [42:43] for me um actually for us because i had gotten off work it had been it's been really busy and so he [42:51] cooked dinner it was salmon he baked it so proud um and then after that he was just like hey mom i'm [42:58] about to go i love you give us a hug kiss and and he left um which of course you know he knew we always [43:06] looked at the life 360 so there were times maybe he didn't call us to let us know when he made it but we [43:12] would see it he would text at some point but that was the last time we saw and spoke with him sir dr roger [43:43] mitchell uh is doing the independent autopsy on behalf of uh nolan wells family and we understand that the [43:55] young men have lawyers so we would have to have their lawyers uh agree to let them speak to our [44:03] investigators and we have not attempted to talk to them as of yet we have been attempting to talk to [44:11] many of the students uh and people who are out there that we are aware of okay right here oh okay okay [44:27] justin finch inside edition asking a question here first for the family wondering if you recall from [44:33] your friend what was said to her by the people who gave her nolan's phone and for attorney crump wondering [44:41] for you at some point will that phone be given to police for their investigation they've expressed [44:46] interest so the exact wording of the exchange it was through phone because again we were busy trying [44:58] to figure out who was going to take the missing persons report just because when it's in water [45:05] when it occurs on the island it's not necessarily the city or the county because then it becomes an [45:11] issue of jurisdiction so like i said she went there and spoke with i cannot remember i'm so sorry my brain [45:19] is everywhere um but she went to the house and retrieved the phone she said i have his phone [45:27] the phone was okay as far as like appearance goes it didn't look damaged or anything um and so then after [45:33] that we met with her at the other house where he had stayed the night july the third where his car was [45:41] because it was important for us to try to retrieve everything of his that we could [45:45] um but it honestly for both instances it was a running round because i know she had issues [45:53] getting his phone as well um and she ended up calling me and i think i spoke with the mother she [45:59] put me on speaker phone and i was like hey you know yes i'm christine i'm nolan's mom we need his [46:05] phone we're trying to find him yes i guess okay we'll go her and then you i guess i let me ask [46:14] the second part of the question absolutely after our experts uh be able to examine the phone we will [46:22] let the mississippi investigators examine the phone and it's fortuitous that they have the phone because [46:30] normally in these investigations as you know reverend they will have the phone and stuff and they [46:35] will keep it for months and the family just be in limbo but thank god we have the phone now we're going [46:40] to do it expeditiously and give it to them to examine it as well anna schecter with cbs news [46:49] so you said that he stayed the night at a friend's the first question is did he stay with the friends [46:54] that he went on the boat with yes yes he did and my second question is has anyone come forward and [47:03] provided you with other photographs or videos from horn island from july 4th that afternoon [47:13] they're starting to send them to our office and that's where attorney park was being so adamant [47:19] about please continue to send whatever videos you got uh whatever pictures you got and we're very [47:26] thankful that some young people have done that good afternoon darla miles abc7 new york first of all [47:34] i would like to extend my condolences to you mr mrs wansley i know this is a very brave of you and we [47:40] appreciate your transparency uh two questions um also my regards to you reverend al mr crumb um my first [47:47] question is this happened in mississippi and you've traveled here to meet with reverend al sharpton why was [47:53] this important to you and how meaningful has this meeting been with you here in new york so we did this [48:03] because once again what we're wanting is transparency right um although i do absolutely respect law [48:15] enforcement just the fact that the you know accidental drowning thing it made both me and his father [48:24] uncomfortable why are we so quick to rush to this um and we just at the end of the day we want answers [48:32] this has been very impactful and i'm gonna be honest with you the the day they found him um we were at [48:42] port mars um which is one of the boat launches and i was standing beside the water and i had said a [48:54] prayer and i was like lord this isn't what we wanted but i just asked him to help us get through this [49:05] put the right people in our path that could potentially help us because at that point we [49:10] hadn't reached out to anybody we didn't know where to start this is foreign we we've never been through [49:18] this no parent should go through this and then that's when my cousin um heezy she sent me a message [49:26] with some information my friend um bianca her sister um knows a contact with attorney ben and so [49:35] i said okay this this has to be it you know like this has to be god helping us along the way and [49:44] i am not religious but i am spiritual and for that i was grateful because i felt like things were being [49:51] set up and at this point i have always said we are taking any help any help we don't care black white [49:57] purple like again we just want to know what happened that's all we want to know we just want to know what [50:03] happened and my quick follow-up to that um can you ex were you able to get a clear explanation as to [50:10] uh the chain of custody of his phone like how that parent came in possession of his phone and then [50:16] explain the resistance you you know you said you went to the home to get the keys i don't understand [50:21] like what kind of resistance what were the what was that exchange of words like uh the resistance that [50:26] you received when you went to go retrieve his keys thank you um he just had like he didn't know where they [50:33] were you just like um he was like he was clueless like i don't he's like i don't know i don't like [50:40] just please i was like just please go in the room and look for me because be honest which at that time [50:45] i was i was very emotional no one was giving me any answer so that situation with me and them could have [50:53] went totally left field but since those other young kids were in there they at that moment they kept [51:02] me from doing what i wanted to do so getting them and calming them down let put it helped me focus on [51:10] what i was really looking for to find the keys and like i said when i asked him he said he went and [51:16] looked and so when he said he couldn't find them i did what i needed i left out of their home and like [51:23] i said five minutes later he come back out with the keys and they didn't come back outside anymore until [51:30] the uh police came because at that time police were called um because we were looking for his wallet [51:39] and then they went to the door but other than that when they sent the keys out they locked that they [51:44] locked everything they went they didn't want nothing to do with what was outside that door so that's [51:50] that right there it's when you lied to me it killed all trust anything you had to say all right i'm [52:00] going to take the last four one two three four yeah okay go ahead maria campanotti with cnn uh two [52:12] questions for attorney crump just to get some clarification on the timeline of the events uh when [52:17] was nolan last seen and by whom and the second question is who first reported nolan missing and when [52:23] well and i asked his uh mother to also assist on the second question but as it's conflicts [52:30] it's conflicts it's conflicts you know the young woman say that he went and got back on the boat with [52:38] the boys the boys say no he said he was going to stay with her and that's a conflict and the troubling [52:47] thing is if they're saying well he made the decision to stay behind would an 18 year old college [52:58] students say go ahead without me i don't want my cell phone or anything it just doesn't add up [53:07] and so that around that three o'clock time seems to be the last time that we have those statements [53:17] however as christine said they're they're suggesting that they didn't leave to 4 30 though so you know [53:26] if you said you were leaving at three why didn't you left at 4 30 and where was nolan for that hour [53:39] i think she was asking about the cell phone oh i answered last scene i thought you said something [53:47] else i think authorities oh no missing okay so um his friend contacted me it was around 1107 and then [53:59] i called my friend to ask her had she seen him because that would be the only other place i would [54:04] think he would go if he were back on land and so then when she told me no she was like don't worry [54:09] i'm going to look for him and that's when we got on the phone um first i called it was either the county [54:19] or ocean springs it was either one of them but whichever i called first i was directed to call dmr [54:25] um because they so dmr um if i'm not mistaken they are they handle cases with the island or the water [54:33] in that area so the young lady took the information down she's like i'm going to give you a call back [54:40] i said okay so when she called me back she explained to me she was like you know i've spoken with the [54:46] coast guard which his friend had contacted the coast guard uh warren had contacted the coast guard to [54:53] report nolan missing as well so i'm on the phone with the dmr he's calling coast guard and she said [55:00] i spoke with coast guard and you know you're gonna have to um complete the report with i think it was [55:07] ocean springs so we go down to the ocean springs police department we're told because it's a [55:12] jurisdiction issue um that they can't file the missing police report um jackson county ends up the [55:20] sheriff's department ends up calling me back i think if i remember this correctly and she was [55:27] calling to check to see were they able to do it i told her no they couldn't do it um the young lady on [55:33] the phone and the officer at ocean springs police department spoke he explained to her why ocean springs [55:39] police department could not complete the missing persons report she said okay he gives the phone back [55:46] she's like look i'm just gonna go ahead and do it so there's no more back and forth so my husband and [55:52] i we met an officer in the mcdonald's parking lot i think at this point it's maybe around 12 don't quote [55:59] me on that but um we explained to him you know what he looked like age all those things last time he was [56:06] reported seen which again by his friend he said that the last time he physically saw him was at [56:13] 3 p.m and they were getting ready to leave the island israel rodriguez with the u.s sun have you [56:21] been able to gather additional information made by warren's mother ashley call on social media where [56:28] she said the group left the island after they experienced trouble with the boat and that the [56:33] boat began taking in water your question is what directly we know she made that statement have you [56:40] been able to gather additional information on that no we have not thank you kevin ortega rojas with [56:47] here's why news um i was hoping that the family could clarify uh nolan's relationship with the [56:52] young men that he traveled to the island with we've heard different accounts of how long he's known them [56:57] um and i was wondering also if you folks have spoken to those families since uh they lawyered up [57:05] high school friends yeah say that say the second part again they have that talk to the families last [57:14] question in here as a cousin a first cousin of a victim in 2020 he went out with his friend and [57:30] the mother who was white and he went missing he was found dead deceased in a field behind her house [57:40] she was arrested she was charged with failing to report a missing child and contributing to the [57:51] delinquent of a juvenile so your story is very familiar your pain i feel it and i will continue [58:01] to advocate i'm an activist and i go all across the world but today i'm here because i stand with you [58:11] as a cousin of a victim i know what you feel when you don't get justice and the system is up against you [58:21] god bless you thank you we will follow up and when we're ready to form an announcements again [58:28] the funeral service is not to pump religion it's to seek justice and unity and we want everybody [58:35] black white everybody to come and extol what this young man represented it's not a protest rally it will [58:42] be to really lift up the spirit of this young man and to stand with the family if we have to do protest [58:48] rallies that'll be announced at another time but the funeral services is to talk about how nolan was [58:55] a great young man to his family and we're there to comfort them thank you for your time let us please [59:01] i'm sorry so i know i have been seeing some younger people um real adults um older people doing [59:10] protests um we actually had a very small one in ocean springs um some young boys that knew nolan [59:18] actually some of his friends so what elmore and i would like to say is if you do please be peaceful nolan [59:31] was not someone who liked fights physical fights he really didn't even like arguments so don't go out [59:38] there trying to be tough just think about what nolan would want and i'm telling you he would not want that [59:48] type of behavior so let's just make sure that we keep it peaceful and respectful to one another's and [59:55] others and just stay away from negativity but also to all of those who have sent beautiful messages we [1:00:03] have not gone through all of them but i want you to know that we appreciate you your love your support [1:00:10] standing with us and and just keep us in your prayers thank you ladies and gentlemen [1:00:21] you