00:00The independent autopsy of Nolan Wells is raising as many questions as it answers.
00:05The 18-year-old college football player died after a day with friends on a Mississippi island.
00:09Investigators don't suspect foul play at the moment, but his family says the facts just don't
00:15make sense. The preliminary report was revealed by civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is
00:19representing the Wells family. It found nothing conclusive. Nolan's cause of death and manner of
00:25death were ruled to be undetermined. This was a secondary autopsy, and the official autopsy,
00:30which was done first, has yet to be released. As it stands, several key questions still don't
00:34have answers. Was there head trauma? Did he drown? And what happened before he entered the water?
00:38For more on what the preliminary autopsy found and the questions that still remain, let's bring in
00:42the New York Post's reporter, Anthony Blair. It was a frustrating day for the family of 18-year-old
00:48Nolan Wells after a preliminary autopsy report found that we still don't know the cause of death
00:55almost two weeks after the teenager died during a 4th of July trip with friends.
01:00Wells' family still, of course, want to know how he died, whether he died before his body
01:07entered the water, and when he died. So the nature of the decomposition of the body means
01:13that authorities still can't say for certain exactly when Wells died. We know that he vanished
01:19apparently on the 4th of July. His body was discovered on the 6th, and two separate autopsies
01:25of so far failed to determine his cause of death. So his family now say they want authorities to
01:31take the case more seriously and also speed up the process of which they complete several parts of the
01:39autopsy. For instance, the toxicology report is still yet to be completed. Also, the throat,
01:45so Wells' throat was taken out at some point between the first and second autopsy.
01:53I spoke to Dr. Michael Barden, the former chief medical examiner for New City today,
02:01and he told me that while this isn't always done, it isn't super uncommon, and they may be looking for
02:08minor fractures in the bones of the trachea, which could provide some more indication of how he died.
02:15But at this point, his family still know very little and are sort of trying to get at least
02:22more attention on to the case.
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