Nolan Wells’ mom says she has spoken with the young woman who spent time with him on an island in Mississippi on the Fourth of July before he disappeared and die.

“She did reach out to me initially, just saying basically like it was a ‘hey and bye’ type situation,” Christine Wonsley said in an interview with TheGrio published on Tuesday, July 14.

However, Wonsley added, “I was like — that’s not what I’m getting from other people,” calling it another example of the “inconsistencies” around Wells’ death, which has attracted national interest.

The family’s attorney, Ben Crump, told TheGrio that their team planned to speak with the woman who met Wells on the island.

It’s unclear who has been interviewed by authorities or the Wells family and what they have said. Indeed, much remains publicly unknown about the 18-year-old college student and football player’s final hours.

Wells had gone to Horn Island with friends on the Fourth of July to celebrate and was later reported missing. His body was found on the island two days later.

The Jackson County sheriff has said it appears Wells decided to stay behind on the island, and a friend from that day said Wells wanted to hang out with a young woman he met during the party.

Officials also said, in the initial days after Wells’ body was found, that there weren’t indications of foul play and he may have drowned.

But Wells’ parents, Christine and Elmore Wonsley, and Crump have sharply challenged that.

Crump told TheGrio that he thinks race is influencing the way Wells’ death was being handled and argued that if Wells had been White, with Black friends, there would be a much more zealous inquiry.

“There were a lot of young people out there. Nobody believes that Nolan either fell off a boat or jumped in the water without people seeing it. That would make no sense,” Crump said. “And if that is the case, then why didn’t people try to help him? … It’s not adding up.”

Wells’ mom and dad said they raised him not to be so reckless as to separate himself from the group and it would be out of character — especially because his phone was apparently left behind on a boat with friends.

Later that day, one of Wells’ friends called his parents to notify them that he was missing and a search ensued.

“When they said that [that he stayed behind without his phone], that automatically just — it turned me off but it turned on a question like, I know he wouldn’t do that. I preached that to him every day … You’re lying to me,” Elmore told TheGrio on Tuesday.

Sharing his skepticism, Elmore went on to say: “When you come tell me that my son’s ᴅᴇᴀᴅ on the island when he had so much in place, so much stuff he was getting ready to do, you can’t then say that to me and then think I’m going to just take that for face value. You’re talking to the wrong parent.”

Wells’ family is doing their own investigation, parallel to the probe by local law enforcement.

“I think it’s important we don’t put ourselves on a timetable, that we don’t rush ourselves,” the sheriff, John Ledbetter, told ABC News earlier this week. “But I do think it’s important to be diligent in gathering all the facts. That’s what the family deserves.”

Crump, the family attorney, agreed, telling TheGrio they will work for even “some measure” of justice: “We are on a ferocious search for the truth.”