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Nolan Wells\u2019 family has issued subpoenas to several social media companies seeking his account information and data as part of the investigation into the 18-year-old college football player\u2019s mysterious death.<\/p>\n

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The subpoenas were issued on Tuesday seeking information from Wells\u2019 accounts on Snapchat, WhatsApp, TikTok, Meta Platforms and the location-tracking app Life360, according to court documents obtained by the Sun Herald.<\/p>\n

The subpoenas request the companies turn over all materials and information related to Wells\u2019 accounts, including current and prior usernames and passwords, email addresses, phone numbers, and display names.<\/p>\n

The family also demanded all IP addresses associated with the accounts and all communications, including chats, posts, stories, and other information, according to the Sun Herald.<\/p>\n

Wells\u2019 cell phone has become a key concern in the probe into his death earlier this month, which has made national headlines.<\/p>\n

His mom, Christine Wonsley, said that when her son\u2019s phone was returned to the family, they had concerns after finding no pictures or videos on his two Snapchat accounts, calling it \u201csuspicious\u201d and triggering fears that content may have been deleted.<\/p>\n

Wells had boated to Horn Island off the Mississippi Coast on the Fourth of July but never came back with his friends, who returned to the mainland with Wells\u2019 cellphone and told police they left him there to talk with a girl.<\/p>\n

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His body was found in the water off the island two days later.<\/p>\n

Wells\u2019 pal Warren Hudson \u2013\u2013 who was on the ill-fated trip with him \u2014 insists he has no knowledge that anyone deleted anything from the promising athlete\u2019s phone.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere was no reason for us to get on Nolan\u2019s phone, no one touched Nolan\u2019s phone\u2026 If none of us had touched Nolan\u2019s phone, then y\u2019know there\u2019s no reason for anything to be deleted,\u201d Hudson told YouTuber The Officer Tatum.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one even was in contact with his phone until it was moved from the boat to the truck, and none of us have access to Nolan\u2019s password to get on his phone and delete anything,\u201d the friend explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had no reason to delete anything\u2026 There\u2019s nothing to hide here,\u201d said Hudson \u2014 who previously told The Post that he considered Wells his \u201cbest friend.<\/p>\n

The subpoenas were filed by Mississippi-based attorney Gary Bufkin, who is assisting prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump\u2019s independent investigation into Wells\u2019 death.<\/p>\n

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