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Nolan Wells’ friends sue NFL Hall of Famer Terrell Owens after his ‘ARREST THEM IMMEDIATELY!!’ demand

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  • Three friends who were with Nolan Wells before his death have filed a federal defamation lawsuit against NFL Hall of Famer Terrell Owens.
  • The suit targets Owens’ Sept. 26 post: “ARREST THEM IMMEDIATELY!! LIKE YESTERDAY!!”
  • That demand came days after a Mississippi grand jury found no credible evidence that Wells’ boating companions committed a crime related to his death.

NFL Hall of Famer Terrell Owens wanted arrests in the mysterious death of Nolan Wells.

Now three of Wells’ friends want Owens in court.

The fathers of Warren Hudson, Jax Pitalo and Morgan Seymour filed a federal defamation lawsuit Monday on behalf of their sons, accusing the former NFL star of helping spread allegations that the three were responsible for Wells’ death.

And the post at the center of the lawsuit wasn’t exactly subtle.

On Sept. 26, Owens wrote on X:

“ARREST THEM IMMEDIATELY!! LIKE YESTERDAY!!”

Owens linked to an Instagram video that, according to the lawsuit, theorized that the three friends killed Wells and tampered with his phone.

There was one rather significant problem with the timing: Owens posted his demand days after a Mississippi grand jury had reviewed the case and declined to recommend criminal charges.

The grand jury went considerably further than simply declining to indict.

It found “no credible evidence” that anyone aboard the three boats involved in the July 4 trip had engaged in criminal conduct connected to Wells’ death and said the accusations against the boat occupants were “not based in truth, and are solely the result of public clamor and private malice.”

Wells disappeared during a Fourth of July outing to Horn Island off Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. His body was discovered two days later.

The grand jury found his death was “consistent with drowning,” although both the state and an independent autopsy failed to conclusively determine a cause of death.

Wells’ family continues to dispute the official conclusions. Their attorneys have pointed to unexplained bruising on the back of his head and other questions they believe remain unanswered.

But unanswered questions are not the same thing as evidence that three specific people committed murder — and that distinction is now sitting in federal court.

The lawsuit alleges Owens’ enormous social-media reach made matters worse. He has roughly 1.2 million followers on X and had previously pledged $25,000 toward a reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in Wells’ death.

Attorney Edward Paltzik, representing the three friends, described Owens’ post in considerably more colorful terms.

“Not only is he defaming them, he’s basically saying to the mob, get your pitchforks, get your torches.”

Owens had not publicly responded to the lawsuit as of the latest reporting.

And he may not be the last prominent name dragged into the legal aftermath.

Lawyers for Wells’ friends say additional defamation actions against online content creators are coming. They have also previously indicated plans to sue the Rev. Al Sharpton and “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin over statements surrounding the case.

What began as a tragic and still-disputed death investigation may now be turning into a much larger courtroom examination of what happens when accusations travel around social media considerably faster than evidence does.

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