More than a month after the body of Nolan Wells was found along the shoreline of a Mississippi barrier island, three friends believed to have traveled out to Horn Island with Wells will return there in an effort to investigate the case, their attorneys tell CNN.

Investigation Ongoing

Warren Hudson, Jax Pitalo, and Morgan Seymour, who are believed to have been with Wells on the Fourth of July, the day he went missing, will go to the island to “investigate the layout and dynamic,” their attorneys, Edward Andrew Paltzik and J. Tyler Cox, told CNN.

The Mississippi State Medical Examiner’s Office is conducting the official autopsy and have been awaiting toxicology tests to come back, Jackson County Coroner Bruce Lynd said. Those results can take weeks.

For weeks, investigators have been searching for answers after Wells disappeared during the trip with his high school friends to the popular barrier island, which according to the National Park Service, has no shelter, no facilities and no communications.

Family and Friends React

Neither Wells’ family lawyer, civil rights attorney Ben Crump, nor Wells’ family have responded to CNN’s request for comment regarding the return to the island by the three men.

Photos from the excursion show Wells hanging out with what seem to be all-White friends, leading some to evoke harsh feelings about Mississippi’s fraught racial history and speculate about whether race played a role in his death.

Jayvon Williams, one of Wells’ friends who had seen him on the island on July 4, said that account doesn’t square with the person he knew. “I’ve never known Nolan to stay back while his friends leave,” he told CNN weeks after Wells’ death. “He’s always been a guy where if he rode with you, he’s going to come back with you. That’s always how he’s been every single time.”

Original reporting: KEYT (Ventura/Santa Barbara) — read the source article.