The Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI) ruled twin brothers Qaadir and Naazir Lewis shot themselves in a suicide pact on a mountain in rural Georgia.
The GBI said both brothers died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds on March 8. Investigators initially ruled their deaths as a murder-suicide.
The 19-year-old twins were found fatally shot on March 8 in rural Towns County, Georgia, nearly 90 miles from their home in Lawrenceville. A gun was found near the bodies.
Forensics evidence revealed both brothers had gunshot residue on their hands and their fingerprints were found on the gun.
After a lengthy investigation, the GBI ruled both brothers shot themselves on top of Bell Mountain.
The GBI said one of the brothers ordered ammunition for a gun three days before their deaths. The twins’ Internet search histories showed they searched for “how to load a gun” and suicide statistics for 2024.
The brothers were scheduled to fly to Massachusetts on the morning of March 7, but they missed their flight.
Later that night they were spotted on surveillance cameras at a Shell station on Hurricane Shoals Road near their home.
The footage shows the brothers eating snacks and drinking water around 10 p.m. on March 7. The gas station is about a 9 minute drive from their home in Lawrenceville.
The next morning, around 11 a.m., a hiker found their bodies on the mountain in Hiawassee, which is one of 9 “Sundown towns” in Georgia where Black people were hanged in the 1800s.
The GBI met with the family before releasing their findings to the news media.
The teenagers’ aunts, Samira and Sabria Brawner, also twins, don’t believe the brothers made a suicide pact.
“I know that something happened to them. I know that they were murdered,” said Samira Brawner. “They didn’t just walk up that mountain and die. Something happened to them.”
Despite the family’s concerns, the GBI said the investigation is officially closed.
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