India, July 29 -- Brandon Tatum, a YouTuber and former police officer, has said that he learned from "reliable sources" that "heavy drinking and cocaine allegedly played a role" in Nolan Wells' death. He also stressed that toxicology results will prove if those claims are true.

The Ocean Springs, Mississippi teen was 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.

"But people are messaging me and telling me that there is heavy drinking and there's cocaine involved. And there's a particular person, I know this person's name, I'...