Young man’s death on July 4 boat trip sparks family’s search for answers on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast

an elite athlete who knew how to swim, had accidentally drowned.

Wells’ body was found early Monday along the shore of Horn Island, about 7 miles off the Mississippi coast, more than a day after he was last seen alive. The roughly 11-mile long spit of land is near the Alabama state line. The island is uninhabited and accessible only continue reading …