Mystery of Georgia Twins Found Dead in Mountains Grows After Autopsies

Two Georgia twin brothers had been discovered deceased with gunshot wounds on a mountain, however authorities haven’t but launched their official causes of demise.

Hikers found the 2 our bodies of Qaadir Malik Lewis and Naazir Rahim Lewis, each 19, on Bell Mountain simply earlier than midday on March 8, based on the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Despite the finished autopsies, the health worker is declining to formally rule on each method and reason for demise for the kids “pending extra forensic exams,” the GBI introduced in an announcement.

Deputies with the Towns County Sheriff’s Office had been the primary to reach on the scene on March 8 and located that each teenagers had suffered gunshot wounds, based on a GBI information launch.

Those deputies then alerted the GBI, and based mostly on a preliminary investigation, the 2 companies mentioned they believed the deaths resulted from a murder-suicide. (The official ruling will likely be made by the health worker.)

Family members, nonetheless, are disputing the assertion from authorities a few murder-suicide.

“My nephews wouldn’t do that! They got here from a household of affection, and twins needed a lot for his or her future, they’d desires of beginning their very personal clothes line,” the brothers’ aunt Yasmine Brawner mentioned after launching a GoFundMe to boost cash for his or her funerals.

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Brawner additionally mentioned that the 2 teenagers had no connection to Bell Mountain, which is positioned 90 miles north of their dwelling in Lawrenceville, and had been planning to fly to Boston on the weekend that they disappeared in a sequence of posts shared on Facebook.

The older sister of the 2 brothers can be rejecting the preliminary assertion from authorities about their deaths.

“They had been a shiny mild on a few of my darkest days and had been a few of my greatest supporters,” wrote Kairee Powell on Facebook.

She and different members of the family have now created the hashtag “#JusticeForQaadirAndNaazir” to boost consciousness.

“Unfortunately Something occurred at Bell mountain that ended the lives of 19 12 months previous Qaadir and Naazir, which must be additional investigated,” Brawner mentioned of the deaths.

If you or somebody you understand is contemplating suicide, please contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988, textual content “STRENGTH” to the Crisis Text Line at 741741 or go to 988lifeline.org.