Three people have been charged with threatening a judge, a witness and local officials connected to the investigation into the death of Nolan Xavier Wells , an 18-year-old found dead after a July Fourth boat trip with friends to an island off Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. None of the three appear to know Wells, his family or the boating group, or be part of the investigation. An independent autopsy commissioned by Wells’ family found the 18-year-old’s cause of death to be “undetermined” pending further investigation. Latino said that one of the family members who Porter threatened is a witness in the investigation into Wells’ death. A California man, Joseph Alfredo Vasquez Dumarce, was charged on July 14 for allegedly sending a threatening Facebook message to a Jackson County Chancery Court judge with ties to the Wells investigation.