Two twin brothers from Georgia have been believed to be headed to Boston to go to some pals when their household was notified they by no means made it to their vacation spot. As an alternative, the 2 have been discovered lifeless within the mountains bordering North Carolina. Now, their household is pushing again on the police’s troubling conclusion of what occurred to the boys.
Twins Qaadir and Naazir Lewis, 19, have been anticipated to make a 7 a.m. flight out to Boston Friday morning, the household tells 11Alive Information. Nevertheless, round 11 a.m. Saturday morning, they have been notified by police that the boys have been discovered lifeless. Authorities mentioned hikers reaching the highest of Bell Mountain in Hiawassee, Ga. referred to as 911 to report the our bodies of the twins.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation mentioned the 2 have been discovered shot to dying. The report says the brothers’ airplane tickets have been nonetheless inside their wallets. Nothing however questions swarm the incident contemplating the household was unfamiliar with the realm the place the twins have been discovered.
“How did they find yourself out within the mountains? 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?”
Whereas the post-mortem outcomes are nonetheless pending, the GBI dominated the incident to be an alleged murder-suicide primarily based on the preliminary investigation – which is unattainable contemplating the twins have been inseparable and had no evident historical past of battle, the household tells 11Alive.
“They’re very protecting of one another. They love one another,” their uncle Rahim Brawner mentioned to 11Alive Information. “They’re inseparable. 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.”
GBI says the investigation continues to be ongoing. Within the meantime, his household arrange a GoFundMe in assist of organizing a memorial for the 2.