Missing Children's Advocates and Content Creators Come Together for Stand For Summer Wells Event

Rogersville, Tenn. (WJHL) – Missing children advocates and content creators from around the world gathered at Rogersville City Park Friday to remember Summer Wells and raise awareness of her disappearance.

Bureda Phillips, known as “Chewy” from Bean Station, helped organize the event. She runs a YouTube channel called “Sharing & Caring with Ms. Chewy,” where she discusses true crime, domestic violence, and missing children.

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“We're trying to make a statement for Summer, and what we wanted to do was really see that law enforcement here in the county knows that we're still strong for Summer, that we want to be her voice,” Phillips said. said.

Evelyn Jenkins, who runs a YouTube channel called “Jenkies Rumor Has It!” » was also at the park to support Summer Wells. She creates content about true crime, missing children, and much more. She thinks it's important to continue to advocate for Wells, even three years after his passing.

“Because if we don’t do it, who will,” Jenkins said. “These kids become cold cases, and you know, if no one keeps their name and posts their picture and posts their flyer, who will?”

Jenkins also creates events to raise awareness about missing and exploited children, including putting up Christmas trees with their photos each year.

“Last year we put up the Christmas tree at Fort Henry Mall and we put over 200 pictures of kids on it,” Jenkins said. “Yeah. Missing and exploited children in Tennessee.

Jenkins said he also added Layla Santanello and Hollynn Snapp, two missing Kingsport women, to the tree.

Flyers for Santanello, Snapp and Sebastian Rogers of Hendersonville were also handed out at the park Friday.

“It’s not just for summer,” Phillips said. “Summer is our inspiration. She inspired a lot of us, a lot of YouTube creators, to stand up and be their voice.

Content creators from as far away as England came to the Stand for Summer Wells gathering.

Tammy Hernandez is not a content creator but an advocate for missing children based in Illinois. Every time she travels, she hangs up flyers about Wells and other missing children. She even puts rubber ducks on and writes “Find Summer Wells” at the bottom of them.