Twin 19-year-old brothers have been discovered shot to demise on high of a Georgia mountain a day after lacking a flight to Boston to go to associates — and their household is refusing to just accept probers’ murder-suicide idea.
Qaadir and Naazir Lewis of Lawrenceville disappeared March 7 after lacking their 7 a.m. flight, with the teenagers discovered useless by a hiker the following day on the summit of Bell Mountain close to the North Carolina border.
Grieving uncle Rahim Brawner mentioned the teenagers have been inseparable and would by no means harm one another, even because the Georgia Bureau of Investigations is treating the case as a murder-suicide.
“They’re very protecting of one another. They love one another,” Brawner told local WXIA-TV on Friday of the brothers. “I couldn’t think about them hurting one another as a result of I’ve by no means seen them get right into a fistfight earlier than.”
The brothers’ aunt, Yasmin Brawner, mentioned the teenagers additionally had a “big assist system” who they knew would have have helped them if there have been indicators of bother or suicidal tendencies.
“We all know them. They wouldn’t do something like this,” Yasmine advised the outlet. “To say they did this to one another? No. One thing occurred in these mountains, and we would like solutions.”
The aunt has since began a GoFundMe to assist pay for her nephews’ funeral bills. She famous that the twins had “desires of beginning their very personal clothes line” sooner or later.”
The household mentioned it has but to listen to solutions on how Qaadir and Naazir traveled from the airport to Bell Mountain, saying the teenagers have by no means been there, nor are they recognized to hike.
The brothers’ our bodies have been discovered by a hiker round 11:05 a.m. March 8, with gunshot wounds on each their corpses.
Their household mentioned the brothers have been discovered with their aircraft tickets nonetheless inside their wallets.
The GBI mentioned autopsies for the brothers have been accomplished however that officers are nonetheless ready for extra forensic exams earlier than issuing a ultimate ruling on the reason for demise.
Authorities didn’t identify the brother they imagine carried out the murder-suicide.
