{"id":368,"date":"2026-07-13T15:42:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2026-07-13T15:42:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:42:32","slug":"a-photo-of-nolan-wells-at-a-pool-party-went-viral-its-not-from-july-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"A Photo of Nolan Wells at a Pool Party Went Viral. It\u2019s Not From July 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tThis past Sunday, a week after Mississippi teen Nolan Wells was found dead following a July 4th boat trip, a photo of the teenager went viral. Social media users circulated a photo of Wells in the middle of a group of people at a pool party that had been posted to Instagram by another young man on July 5. People who found the photo online assumed it had been taken the night before, when Wells went missing. But, in reality, the photo was taken the Saturday prior, on June 27 at 11:58 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=366\">Trump Dings Lindsey Graham for Briefly Opposing Him Over Jan. 6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tOne person posted: \u201cOne of the \u2018friends\u2019 posted this to his Instagram on July 5th before he deactivated his account. Notice anything?? this is proof that Nolan made it off that island alive. They placed his body back on the island after something went down at that house!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTracestin Shepherd, a close friend of Wells, confirmed that the pool party photograph was taken on Saturday, June 27. A separate person provided <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> with metadata from the pool party photo, as well as similar group photos taken that night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\t\u201cOur friend group had been planning to go to this party way before June 27, before it took place,\u201d says Shepherd, who didn\u2019t end up going because he\u2019d been working all day and had church the next morning. But Shepherd says he knows Wells and their other friends went to the party and identified them in the photo. Shepherd says a friend of his posted the picture as part of a photo dump of recent events, but deleted it once social media rumors around Wells\u2019 death began to spread.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tShepherd adds that it\u2019s been \u201cunbelievable\u201d and \u201cheartbreaking\u201d to see misinformation like the pool-party photo spread online. He says it\u2019s been difficult to grieve the loss of such a close friend while watching false theories go viral.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe pool party is the latest in a string of misleading images swirling around the disappearance and death of 18-year-old Wells. Over July 4 weekend, the Wells story became national news after the college football player didn\u2019t come home from a trip with friends to Horn Island, a barrier island off the coast of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, where Wells grew up. After days of searching, Wells\u2019 body was found on Monday, July 6, not far from where he had been hanging out with his friends on Independence Day.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\tWhile an investigation is being conducted by the Jackson County Sheriff\u2019s Office, as well as a private investigation by the Wells family attorney, online sleuths have dug into social media posts they believe to have been associated with Wells or his friends to try to surface evidence that could lead to answers about the hours after he was last seen on the island. There are videos that have been misconstrued, photos that have been taken out of context, and completely fabricated images made with AI.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAnother stark example of the misinformation around the case was a video that was believed to have been the last known footage of Wells, taken at around 3:30 p.m. on July 4. People believed that it showed him engaged in a heated discussion on the shore of Horn Island and that he could be heard yelling to another person to give him back his phone. In fact, Shepherd told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> that it was his voice that could be heard on the recording and that he didn\u2019t believe Wells was shown in the footage \u2014 that he was just out of frame, hanging out in the water along the shore.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=364\">What Really Happened in the Last Known Video of Nolan Wells: \u2018It\u2019s Me Yelling\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThose were not Nolan\u2019s words, they were mine,\u201d Shepherd said. \u201cI get that everybody wants justice for Nolan. Everybody wants to know exactly what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWells\u2019 mother, Christine Wonsley, addressed the misinformation that has surrounded this case, debunking AI-generated content on her Facebook page and asking people to respect her family\u2019s privacy. On Saturday, July 11, Wonsley wrote, \u201cThe internet is unhinged. To my family, friends, and to Nolan\u2019s friends please do not engage and take care of your mental.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Jackson County Sheriff\u2019s Office stressed the importance of submitting original, unedited photos as tips for the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0\u201cWe recognize that a significant amount of information, speculation, and commentary has been shared on social media and throughout the community,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said in a statement. \u201cAs with any active investigation, our investigators are working to establish the facts through eyewitness accounts, physical evidence, and other reliable information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOn Sunday, Wonsley returned to Facebook asking for more information on her the tragedy. \u201cElmore Wonsley and I are desperately asking that if you have any information, videos, pictures regarding our son, Nolan Wells from July 4th please contact local authorities at 228-769-3063 but also contact my legal team at 1-800-691-7111,\u201d wrote Wells\u2019 mother. \u201cWe need to know what happened to our baby.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\tShe added, \u201cFor those of you making light or joking about my son\u2019s death I pray you never have to go through this pain,\u201d wrote Wonsley. \u201cLosing my son is not a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=362\">Lindsey Graham, Longtime South Carolina Senator, Dead at 71<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pool photo is the latest of misleading images surrounding the disappearance and death of Mississippi football player Nolan Xavier Wells<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Photo of Nolan Wells at a Pool Party Went Viral. 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