All stories

2 outlets · filed 23 September 2026

Grand jury declines charges in Nolan Wells case

This story is from the archive. It was covered between 23 September 2026 and 23 September 2026, and nothing below has been updated since. See what is happening now.

The family of Nolan Wells is pushing back after a grand jury declined to bring charges in the death of a Black teenager who was found dead following a July 4 boating trip with a group of white friends. The grand jury report noted that both the state's medical examiner and the pathologist hired by th

60 Minutes

What the coverage shows

All of the outlets converge on the grand jury’s refusal to bring charges in Nolan Wells’ death, with NBC News, CNN and ABC News all explicitly describing that conclusion and AP framing the coverage around the family’s news conference afterward. The Independent is the only outlet in this set to foreground the district attorney’s criticism of “false narratives,” while NPR uniquely says the family is questioning whether Wells’ race contributed to his death. PBS NewsHour’s extract is just a brief wrap item and adds no extra framing beyond the decision itself.

Written by Crossfiled from the 2 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.

PBS NewsHour60 Minutes

How it broke

In this story

2outlets
2videos
0articles

More on Courts & Justice

Every Courts & Justice story, across every outlet