The Jackson county sheriff’s office said it interviewed witnesses in the days and weeks after Wells’s death. NOLAN WELLS * NOLAN WELLS * NOLAN WELLS. Nolan Wells was deeply, deeply loved, even by people that didn’t know him.” We’re going to get to the answers of what happened to Nolan Wells, what happened to Daniel Erving, and what happened to Tyler Smith. Both arrests were of people who made threats against Cole and against the Jackson county sheriff’s office.