Mom of Missing Summer Wells Calls 911, Says Husband Assaulted Her: Reports – Crime Online

The mom of a lacking 5-year-old Tennessee lady reported her husband for bodily assault final week, based on police.

A report from the Hawkins County Sheriff’s Workplace indicated that police arrived on the Effectively residence on January 19 after Candus Bly, the mom lacking Summer season Wells, referred to as 911. Whereas officers have been en path to the residence, dispatchers mentioned they heard arguments within the background earlier than the road went useless.

Bly made contact with the officers once they arrived at her residence and mentioned her husband, Don Wells, pushed her in opposition to a wall and grabbed her by the throat. Bly added that she thought she broke her left thumb throughout the alleged assault.

Information Channel 11 reviews that Wells informed police they’d each been ingesting on the evening in query however denied harming his wife. He reportedly added that Bly has been ingesting alcohol earlier than he arrived residence at round 7:45 p.m. that evening.

Responding officers famous that they didn’t see any marks on Bly’s neck and observed she used her left thumb to flick her cigarette and left hand to place her sneakers on.

Police determined in opposition to charging both of them and referred the case to the prosecutor’s workplace.

As CrimeOnline beforehand reported, Summer season was reported lacking on June 15, 2021, after her dad and mom claimed disappeared from inside their residence in rural east Tennessee. Don Wells has maintained since her preliminary disappearance that Summer season was kidnapped; although authorities mentioned they don’t have proof pointing to abduction.

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Police haven’t named any particular individuals of curiosity, however Hawkins County Sheriff Ronnie Lawson informed WVLT that “everyone continues to be an individual of curiosity.”

“Statistically talking there’s a very good likelihood she’s already useless,” Don Wells mentioned final yr. “I hate to suppose that. I like her with all my coronary heart. If nothing else, I’ll see her within the resurrection. So long as I preserve the commandments and do what I’m imagined to do, I’ll see her.”

Summer season’s father additionally appeared to substantiate, as earlier native reviews have steered, that he was not at residence on the time Summer season disappeared from her residence.

“She’s been kidnapped in my thoughts, 100%,” Don Wells mentioned when requested if he nonetheless believes his daughter was kidnapped.

“I do know [Summer’s mother] Candus wouldn’t mislead me about any of the info. She has no purpose to, and she or he wouldn’t lie.”

Don Wells additionally insisted that each he and his wife handed a lie detector check, showing to reference hypothesis that they’d not.

Learn CrimeOnline’s complete protection of the Summer season Wells lacking individuals investigation right here.

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[Featured Photo: Summer Wells/TBI]

*Further reporting by Ellen Killoran*