Extra questions have been raised after a north Ga. firefighter was arrested and charged in connection to the tragic killings of dual brothers in Georgia. Based on stories, the firefighter was fired on March 14 after he allegedly violated division protocol, Cities County Commissioner Cliff Bradshaw advised 11Alive.
As The Root beforehand reported, Qaadir and Naazir Lewis, 19, had been discovered useless simply hours after they had been anticipated to fly to Boston to go to associates on Saturday (March 8). Their aircraft tickets had been reportedly nonetheless of their respective wallets discovered on the scene of the crime. Hikers found their our bodies on the prime of Bell Mountain, close to the Georgia-North Carolina border, dozens of miles from the place household say the brothers had been dwelling.
“How did they find yourself out within the mountains?” their uncle mentioned to 11 Alive. “They don’t hike on the market, they’ve by no means been on the market. They don’t know something about Hiawassee, Georgia. They by no means even heard of Bell Mountain, so how did they find yourself proper there?”
Though police suspect the brothers died in a murder-suicide by gunshot wound, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) has confirmed the arrest of former Cities County volunteer firefighter Scott Kerlin, 42, in connection to the case. Kerlin has not been charged immediately within the deaths of the brothers. However he was hit with misdemeanor obstruction for allegedly snapping images of the twins’ useless our bodies and leaking them to the general public, in line with the GBI.
The GBI’s health worker has not shared the finished post-mortem stories to the general public but. Based on a spokesperson, further forensic checks are additionally nonetheless pending. The household, nevertheless, continues to dispute the murder-suicide ruling, saying the twins would by no means harm one another.
Their aunt, Yasmine Brawner, mentioned “They wouldn’t do something like this. To say they did this to one another? No. One thing occurred in these mountains, and we wish solutions.” Within the meantime, their household has arrange a GoFundMe in help of organizing a memorial for the 2. To this point, greater than $34,000 has been raised.