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Celebrity Deaths: 2025’s Fallen Stars
The household of Qaadir Malik Lewis and Naazir Rahim Lewis are looking for answers.
After authorities classified the duplicate brothers' deaths arsenic a murder-suicide 1 week aft hikers successful Hiawassee, Ga., found their bodies connected March 8, their loved ones are questioning what led to the harrowing discovery.
"They're precise protective of each other," their uncle Rahim Brawner said of the brothers to NBC affiliate WXIA-TV March 14. "They emotion each other. They're similar inseparable. I couldn't ideate them hurting each different due to the fact that I've ne'er seen them get into a fistfight before."
Qaadir and Naazir, 19, were recovered changeable to decease astir 90 miles from their Lawrenceville location astatine the acme of Bell Mountain, a determination their household said they'd ne'er visited before.
"How did they extremity up retired successful the mountains?" Rahim noted. "They don't hike retired there, they've ne'er been retired there. They don't cognize thing astir Hiawassee, Georgia. They ne'er adjacent heard of Bell Mountain, truthful however did they extremity up close there?"
In fact, the twins had booked a formation to Boston to sojourn their friends the time earlier their bodies were found. Their household revealed that Qaadir and Naazir inactive had hose tickets successful their wallets connected the mountain.
Although the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) has ruled it a murder-suicide, Rahim told the station, "We knew close distant that wasn't true."
"We cognize them," she added. "They wouldn't bash thing similar this. To accidental they did this to each other? No. Something happened successful those mountains, and we privation answers."
The brothers' aunt Yasmine Brawner emphasized that they "had a immense enactment system."
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As for what Georgia officials person said of their deaths?
"Both men were recovered with gunshot wounds," the GBI shared successful a March 16 statement. "The preliminary probe reveals the deaths to beryllium a murder-suicide. Autopsies are pending. The decease probe is progressive & ongoing."
The connection besides added, "A GBI aesculapian examiner has completed the autopsies, but the authoritative ME ruling and results are pending further forensic tests."
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