India, July 9 -- Investigators are continuing to try and determine what happened to Nolan Xavier Wells, an 18-year-old from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, who was reportedly found dead in the water on the northwest end of Horn Island on Monday morning, July 6. Wells went missing on July 4 after taking a boat to the island with friends. The search for the teen was called off after a body was found by a park ranger on Monday, July 6.

A cause of death for Wells has not been revealed. Attorney Ben Crump, who has been hired by Wells' family, said that the family is pursuing an independent autopsy.

Crump said in a recent interview with Don Lemon that the body was being flown to Washington, D.C., for a medical examiner to study.

"Nolan Wells was...