Crump Says FBI to Oversee Evidence Review in 3 Black Teens' Deaths
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Updated · WZTV · Jul 30
Crump Says FBI to Oversee Evidence Review in 3 Black Teens' Deaths
3 articles · Updated · WZTV · Jul 30
Summary
Crump said prosecutors in Nolan Wells' case are willing to review his team's evidence, and additional audio files could be jointly examined under FBI oversight.
Three 18-year-old Black teens — Wells, Daniel Erving and Tyler Smith — died between April and July, and all three families say official accounts remain incomplete or wrong.
Wells' body was found July 6 after he disappeared on a July 4 boat trip to Horn Island; an independent autopsy listed his cause and manner of death as undetermined.
Erving's death was ruled an accidental drowning and Smith's a self-inflicted accidental shooting, but Crump cited deleted messages, discarded belongings and a gun-shell mismatch as reasons for doubt.
Tampering-with-evidence charges have been filed in the Erving and Smith cases, yet no one has been charged in any of the three deaths, deepening family distrust of investigators.