Statement from Attorney Ben Crump After Mississippi Board of Nursing Closes Complaint Against Christine Wells Wonsley

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (August 6, 2026) – Nationally renowned civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump issued a statement after the Mississippi Board of Nursing closed the anonymous professional misconduct complaint filed against Christine Wells Wonsley, the mother of Nolan Wells. Nolan was found on Horn Island on July 6, 2026. His cause of death remains undetermined, and an independent autopsy was inconclusive.

Attorney Crump issued the following statement: 

“The complaint against Christine Wells Wonsley has been closed, and it should never have been filed in the first place. It was frivolous, it was unfounded, and it was never about patient care. It was an attempt to distract a grieving mother and intimidate her into silence, filed by someone who would not put their name on it. That effort failed. 

“Christine is not going to spend her energy on whoever did this. She is focused on getting her questions answered, the same questions she has had since the day she lost her son. Those questions did not go away when this complaint was filed, and they do not go away now that it has been closed. What Christine still does not have is the truth about her son. We intend to get it.”