表示他正在考虑要求联邦调查局（FBI）调查诺兰·韦尔斯（Nolan Wells）的死因。韦尔斯是一名黑人大学一年级新生，最后一次被看到活著是在7月4日与朋友的一次乘船旅行中。
said he was considering asking the FBI to investigate the death of Nolan Wells, a Black college freshman who was last seen alive on a 4 July boating trip with friends.
现年18岁的韦尔斯在密西西比州海岸外的屏障岛——霍恩岛（Horn Island）失踪。两天后，他的遗体在该岛被发现。韦尔斯的死因和死后方式目前仍未确定。
Wells, 18, went missing while on Horn Island, a barrier island off the coast of Mississippi His body was found on the island two days later. Wells’s cause and manner of death are still undetermined.
他的失踪和随后的死亡已成为该国种族敌意的焦点，并引起了全国的审视。在杰克逊县对该案的调查期间，社交媒体上充满了关于韦尔斯及其家人和朋友的虚假信息。
His disappearance and subsequent death have become a flashpoint for racial animosity in the country, drawing national scrutiny. During the Jackson county investigation into the case, social media became rife with misinformation about Wells, his family and friends.
韦尔斯的母亲克里斯蒂娜·韦尔斯-旺斯利（Christine Wells-Wonsley）开始寻找他，导致一张韦尔斯与三个白人朋友在船上的照片在网上疯传。
Wells’s mother, Christine Wells-Wonsley, started searching for him, leading to a photo of Wells with three white friends on a boat to go viral.
在韦尔斯的遗体被发现到杰克逊县大陪审团拒绝在案件中起诉任何人的几个月里，许多人暗示，如果韦尔斯的家人是白人，他们所受到的地方官员的对待将会有所不同。
In the months between Wells’s body being found and a Jackson county grand jury declining to indict anyone in his case, many have suggested that the treatment Wells’s family has received by local officials would have been different if they were white.
在杰克逊县大陪审团作出拒绝起诉该案任何人的决定后，韦尔斯的家人以及代表该家族的民权律师本·克鲁普（Ben Crump）呼吁对韦尔斯的失踪和死亡展开联邦调查。
Wells’s family and Ben Crump, the civil rights lawyer who is representing the family, have called for a federal investigation into Wells’s disappearance and death, after a Jackson county grand jury’s decision to decline to indict anyone in the case.
杰克逊县大陪审团认定韦尔斯是溺水身亡。然而，由法医病理学家、霍华德大学医院院长罗杰·A·米特切尔·小（Roger A Mitchell Jr）进行的独立尸检认定，由于韦尔斯的胃、肺和喉咙里没有水，因此没有溺水的证据。该尸检还指出，韦尔斯的头部、背部、左肩和臀部有瘀伤。
The Jackson county grand jury determined that Wells drowned. However, an independent autopsy conducted by the president of Howard University hospital, Roger A Mitchell Jr, a forensic pathologist, determined there was no evidence of drowning due to the absence of water in Wells’s stomach, lungs and throat. That autopsy also noted bruising on Well’s head, back, left shoulder and buttocks.
“我们认为诺兰并非溺水身亡，他头部遭受的钝器创伤也无法被忽视或轻易解释。”克伦普在一份声明中表示，“诺兰的家人值得了解真相，我们将继续斗争，直到所有问题都得到解答，正义得以伸张。”周二，克伦普和威尔斯的父母与“停止针对亚裔美国人和太平洋岛民仇恨”组织的执行主任辛西娅·崔一同呼吁对威尔斯的死亡和失踪展开联邦调查。
“We do not believe Nolan drowned, and the blunt force trauma to his head cannot be ignored or explained away,” Crump said in a statement. “Nolan’s family deserves the truth, and we will keep fighting until every question is answered and justice is served.”On Tuesday, Crump and Wells’s parents joined Cynthia Choi, Stop AAPI Hate’s executive director, in calling for a federal investigation into Wells’s death and disappearance.
加州众议员马克辛·沃特斯、佛罗里达州众议员弗雷德里卡·威尔逊等人也致信美国国家公园管理局（NPS）代理局长杰西卡·鲍伦，指出霍恩岛大部分区域属于联邦指定土地，并敦促NPS调查服务部门对威尔斯的死亡和失踪展开“迅速且彻底的调查”。
California congresswoman Maxine Waters, Florida congresswoman Frederica Wilson and others also sent a letter to Jessica Bowron, the acting director of the US National Park Service (NPS), noting that most of Horn Island is federally designated land and calling on the NPS’s investigative services branch to open a “prompt and exhaustive investigation” into Wells’s death and disappearance.
“今天，我请求那些肩负服务与保护职责的人们，请向我们的家人信守承诺。”威尔斯的父亲埃尔莫·翁斯利在新闻发布会上说。“我们的儿子是在联邦土地上被发现的，我们请求他们介入并进行全面调查。我们并非要求特殊对待，我们只是要求任何一位父亲都会为自己的孩子做的事——查明他孩子遭遇的真相。”当他离开白宫时，记者们问特朗普是否计划敦促联邦调查局对威尔斯的死亡展开独立调查。“嗯，我们正在研究此事，”他说，“是的，我们正在研究。”
“Today, I am asking the people whose job it is to serve and protect to keep their word to our family,” Elmore Wonsley, Wells’s father, said at the press conference. “Our son was found on federal land, and we are asking the to step in and do a full investigation. We’re not asking for special treatment. We’re asking for what any father would do for his child, and that’s to find the truth about what happened to his child.”As he was leaving the White House, reporters asked Trump whether he planned to push the FBI to launch an independent investigation into Wells’s death. “Well, we’re looking at that,” he said. “Yes, we are.”
“本周日将是我们开始调查诺兰·威尔斯死亡事件100天之际。因此，当特朗普总统回应记者提问时表示‘我们正在研究此事’时，我们认为这一表态的分量要大于联邦调查局此前给出的回应。”代表威尔斯家人的克伦普在一份声明中表示。“我们的团队随时准备与联邦政府合作，确保对诺兰的死亡展开最全面彻底的调查。”
“Sunday will mark 100 days since we have been looking into the death of Nolan Wells, so when President Trump responds to news reporters that ‘we’re looking into it,’ we believe that carries more weight than the response given by the FBI,” Crump, who is representing Wells’s family, said in a statement. “Our team stands ready to work with the federal government to ensure Nolan’s death is investigated to the fullest extent.”