Terrell Owens blindsided by Nolan Wells lawsuit stunt in middle of college event

Terrell Owens was served with a federal defamation lawsuit during a fan meet-and-greet in Chattanooga on Sunday, while visiting his alma mater for homecoming. The case concerns social media comments he made about three friends of Nolan Wells, a Black teenager who died after going missing in Mississippi over the Fourth of July weekend.

The complaint, filed on 5 October in the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, alleges Owens shared an unfounded theory implicating the three friends and wrote, “ARREST THEM IMMEDIATELY!!” Lawyers for the friends say the post defamed them. Video of the service showed Owens taking the paperwork before returning to the event; he later shared posts about a University of Tennessee at Chattanooga basketball game and the Wells case.