No criminal charges in the death of Nolan Wells: Grand jury report

https://abcnews.com/US/criminal-charges-death-nolan-wells-grand-jury-report/story?id=136638251

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givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1d (1 reply)

I never thought he was murdered, but I'm still relatively confident a bunch of drunk kids covered up an accidental drowning.

Rather than be honest with the family or try to get help, they just all decided they didn't see anything. Like, I doubt anyone could have done something to save him, but now that they made the official story "we didn't see anything" they may eventually be convicted of lying.

It's exactly the dumb decision a bunch of drunk college students would make. Just go home and pretend it never happened, and it blew up into a national news story.

anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1d

Yeah. Someone is gonna slip up one day.

lemmyng@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d (1 reply)

And yet another black person's death covered up by the two-tiered judicial system of Amerikkka. What a surprise.

Godric@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d

The grand jury of 23 people, convened last week, found "no credible evidence to support the public allegations" that anyone riding to or from the island that day surrounding Wells "engaged in any criminal conduct related to" his death.

The panel was comprised of what the report called a "cross section of citizens" from the area: 13 men and ten women, including "12 Caucasians, five African Americans, one Asian, two Hispanics, two Native Americans, and one individual who preferred 'other.'" Their ages ranged from 27 years old to 68 years old.

The grand jury heard from 43 witnesses and reviewed materials including physical evidence collected at the scene, digital evidence, police reports and interviews, videos, images and maps collected during the investigation.