The mother of 18-year-old Nolan Xavier Wells confirmed her son’s death on Monday afternoon, hours after a park ranger found a body on Horn Island, where he had gone missing on July 4.
Elijah Hurewitz-Ravitch
Elijah Hurewitz-Ravitch is a reporting intern at the Mississippi Free Press. He is a junior at Yale University, where he spent two years covering New Haven politics for the Yale Daily News. He has previously reported for WNYC/Gothamist.
