A Fourth of July day trip took a horrifying turn for 18-year-old Nolan Xavier Wells, a student-athlete who studied at and played football for Southwest Mississippi Community College.
On the occasion of the USA’s 250th Independence Day, Nolan and some friends went to Horn Island, a long and thin strip of land off the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, south of Ocean Springs.
His friends came back home in the evening, but Nolan did not.
