A brother’s twin 19-year-old brother was found shot dead on a mountaintop in Georgia after missing a plane to Boston to visit friends.
Qaadir and Naazir Lewis of Lawrenceville disappeared on March 7 after missing a 7 a.m. flight and the next day a hiker spotted hikers on the top of Mount Bell near the North Carolina border.
Their families refused to accept the investigator’s theory of murder.
The sad uncle Rahim Brawner said that even if the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is treating the case as a murder and suicide, teenagers are inseparable and will never hurt each other.
“They are very protective of each other. They love each other,” Brawner told local WXIA-TV on Friday. “I can’t imagine them hurting each other because I’ve never seen them in a boxing battle before.”
The brothers’ aunt Yasmin Brawner said teenagers also have a “huge support system” and they know if there’s trouble or su! Signs of cidal tendency they will help them.
“We know them. They won’t do something like this,” Yasmine told The Outlet. “Say they did each other? No, something happened on those hills and we want the answer.”
The family said there was no answer on how Qaadir and Naazir got from the airport to Bell Hill, saying the teenagers had never been there and had no idea they were hiking.
At around 11:05 a.m. on March 8, a hiker found the bodies of the brothers, both of whom had gunshot wounds.
Their family said the brothers were found and their air tickets were still in their wallets.
The brothers’ autopsy was completed, but officials are still waiting for other forensic tests before a final ruling on the cause of death was issued, GBI said.
Authorities did not name the specific brothers they believed to have committed the murder.
