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\n\tA moment that started out as a disagreement between Tracestin Shepherd and his girlfriend has been at the center of a swirl of questions about the tragic death of 18-year-old Mississippi football player Nolan Wells. The video posted to social media of a group of young people seemingly in a heated altercation has been believed to be the last time Wells was pictured or heard on video before his disappearance and death, which has made national news. But Shepherd, a close friend of Wells, says what really happened in the video isn\u2019t how it\u2019s been portrayed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tAt around 3:30 p.m. on July 4, Shepherd says he was with a large group of friends from high school, including Wells, to celebrate the holiday. Shepherd and his family took a boat over to Horn Island, a barrier island off the coast of Mississippi, where he planned to meet up with Wells and some other friends from high school \u2014\u00a0the friends often took the 45-minute ride over to Horn Island on weekends to hang out and had been there since that morning.<\/p>\n

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\n\tShepherd says he was waist-deep in the water surrounding Horn Island having a disagreement with his girlfriend that afternoon when a young man his age walked by and criticized their conversation. The man was an acquaintance from a nearby town who had not come over on the boat with Shepherd or Wells.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI told him he needed to mind his own business,\u201d Shepherd, 20, told me Saturday, a week after the disagreement. Shepherd says the exchange became heated, and that he and the other man ended up getting into a physical altercation. Shepherd\u2019s uncle, who had raised him like a father, told Shepherd to get out of the water and onto his boat so they could head back home. Shepherd complied, but once he got on the boat, he changed his mind and decided he wanted to go back. Shepherd\u2019s friends had by that point begun defending him back on shore. Around this time, another adult on a nearby boat started filming the video, later posting it on social media after news of Wells\u2019 disappearance broke.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn that video, you hear somebody yelling \u2014 that is me,\u201d Shepherd says. \u201cIt\u2019s me yelling \u2014 my exact wording is, \u2018Get me off this fucking boat.\u2019 I wanted to fight, and I\u2019d felt like I hadn\u2019t had my fair share.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tShepherd\u2019s girlfriend says she had gone over to the beach when the altercation moved there, and Shepherd\u2019s uncle says a group of older adults stepped in and broke up the fight between the younger adults on shore. Shepherd\u2019s girlfriend and uncle corroborated his story, as did a family friend who can be seen in the video trying to calm Shepherd down.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe want[ed] to get off the boat and go fight the dude who he got into it with,\u201d says the family friend, who asked not to be named. \u201cNobody knows what Tracestin was saying better than me because he was screaming it in my face.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOnce the Wells story began making headlines, the grainy video quickly went viral. People online speculated that Wells was one of the people standing in the group seemingly in a heated discussion \u2014 Wells was last seen wearing blue swim trunks, like a young man in the group. Shepherd says the man in the video who people think is Wells is too short to be his six-foot-two-inch friend. He says Wells is not shown in the video at all \u2014 that he was just out of frame hanging out in the water. Shepherd has been speaking with law enforcement since Wells went missing and gave his full version of events of that day and of the video to local police officers on Friday, July 10. Shepherd says he has also communicated with Wells\u2019 family.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe video has been at the center of the discussions around Wells\u2019 death, as many believed it was the last time he was seen alive \u2014 and showed that he was on the island when the video was taken around 3 p.m. It also seemed to show that Wells was involved in an altercation shortly before his death. Wells was found dead on Monday, July 6, in the same area where the group had been hanging out all day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBen Crump, the attorney working with the Wells family, reposted the video after it went viral on social media and brought it up at a Friday afternoon press conference. Crump said that Wells could be heard in the video: \u201cThis video, you can hear an argument going where Nolan is saying, \u2018Give me my freaking phone, what are you freaking doing?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tAnother friend of Wells and Shepherd told TMZ over the weekend that it wasn\u2019t Wells heard on the video. Jayvon Williams said the video was too far away from him to make out whether or not it was Wells in the group standing on-shore. But he thought the audio sounded too clear for it to have come from the land.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat altercation, it sounds just like my other friend who got into another altercation on the boat,\u201d Jayvon Williams told TMZ about the video. \u201cAs he was in that altercation, I was trying to calm him down, they were trying to get him out, off the island, trying to get him back to land because he was just losing it. The parents on that boat were trying to get him out.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tShepherd confirms to Rolling Stone<\/em> that he was the friend Williams was referring to in the TMZ interview. \u201cThose were not Nolan\u2019s words, they were mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCrump did not immediately respond to request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tShepherd remembers Wells as a gentle, respectful person and says he deeply misses his close friend. \u201cHe made sure everybody was included in everything and if you were somewhere, he made you feel welcome there,\u201d Shepherd says. \u201cHe didn\u2019t see any flaws you had, he only saw the positive you brought into his life, into the world. Whatever you did, if Nolan was friends with you, he was your biggest supporter.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his first interview with the media, Shepherd says now that he\u2019s made his full statement to the police, he wants to correct the record, both because he wants the truth out there and because he\u2019s worried about his friends who are receiving death threats after online sleuths have misconstrued what is happening in the video.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m tired of speculation, of not being able to talk, it\u2019s time for somebody to start speaking up,\u201d Shepherd says. \u201cI\u2019m not just hurting because of Nolan, I\u2019m also hurting because I call my friends and you can hear it in their voice that they\u2019re terrified of what these people will do to them. It\u2019s gone completely way too far.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Jackson County Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating Wells\u2019 death, and his family\u2019s attorney, Crump, has called for an independent investigation and is conducting an independent autopsy. Autopsy results are expected soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI get that everybody wants justice for Nolan,\u201d Shepherd says, tears streaming down his face. \u201cEverybody wants to know exactly what happened. Will we ever know?\u201d<\/p>\n

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