Family of Teen Twin Brothers Speaks Out After Apparent Murder-Suicide

The family of Qaadir Malik Lewis and Naazir Rahim Lewis are looking for answers.

After authorities classified the twin brothers’ deaths as a murder-suicide one week after hikers in Hiawassee, Ga., found their bodies on March 8, their loved ones are questioning what led to the harrowing discovery.

“They’re very protective of each other,” their uncle Rahim Brawner said of the brothers to NBC affiliate WXIA-TV March 14. “They love each other. They’re like inseparable. I couldn’t imagine them hurting each other because I’ve never seen them get into a fistfight before.”

Qaadir and Naazir, 19, were found shot to death nearly 90 miles from their Lawrenceville home at the summit of Bell Mountain, a location their family said they’d never visited before. 

“How did they end up out in the mountains?” Rahim noted. “They don’t hike out there, they’ve never been out there. They don’t know anything about Hiawassee, Georgia. They never even heard of Bell Mountain, so how did they end up right there?”