GA - Twin brothers miss flight to Boston, found dead 24 hours later in Georgia mountains, 14 Mar 2025

[Knox]

According to a post on a family member's page. As of 8/16, the GBI still has not offically closed the case. Wonder why it's taking so long?

 

[xjd11]

According to a post on a family member's page. As of 8/16, the GBI still has not offically closed the case. Wonder why it's taking so long?

wonder if they are waiting for more toxicology test results?

 

[Knox]

wonder if they are waiting for more toxicology test results?

Would they have stated the investigation was complete and the ruling final, if there were pending results? I thought it was just an administrative thing where they were assembling the case file?

 

[statt#1]

According to a post on a family member's page. As of 8/16, the GBI still has not offically closed the case. Wonder why it's taking so long?

This is probably a backlog of clerical duties where the file is in the queue to be handled when it comes around.....or, there is a wee part of me that thinks there's still something askew.

 

[starlightstarbright]

Does closing the case open the file up to family/public access in some way?

 

[Miss Poovy]

Does closing the case open the file up to family/public access in some way?

From the GBI website:

GBI Investigates Deaths on Bell Mountain in Towns County

UPDATE - 5/21/2025:The GBI has concluded the investigation into the deaths of Qaadir Malik Lewis and Naazir Rahim Lewis. Based on the results of the medical examiner’s autopsy and other investigative findings, their deaths have been ruled suicide-suicide. GBI agents have met with the Lewis...

gbi.georgia.gov

 

[LouTennant]

From the GBI website:

GBI Investigates Deaths on Bell Mountain in Towns County

UPDATE - 5/21/2025:The GBI has concluded the investigation into the deaths of Qaadir Malik Lewis and Naazir Rahim Lewis. Based on the results of the medical examiner’s autopsy and other investigative findings, their deaths have been ruled suicide-suicide. GBI agents have met with the Lewis...

gbi.georgia.gov

I'm don't know how case files are disclosed in Boston so will they say what was written in the texts between the brothers that led them to believe it was suicide?

Its does seem that the bullets arriving two days before Naazir was due to fly moved forward their sad plans.

JMO

 

[Miss Poovy]

I'm don't know how case files are disclosed in Boston so will they say what was written in the texts between the brothers that led them to believe it was suicide?

Its does seem that the bullets arriving two days before Naazir was due to fly moved forward their sad plans.

JMO

As far as I have seen, very little is known about the girlfriend. If I’m remembering correctly, the family met/talked to her on the phone after the deaths.

I don’t know what all would be in the file if it’s requested by an individual. I’m assuming GBI would have the emails if available/pertinent to the investigation, but it seems like to me, communications are usually heavily redacted.

 

[minazoe]

I know someone who lost both parents at a young age...their guardian took all the SS payments and lied about what she was doing with those payments for years..when my friend came of age there was nothing..all her benefits stopped and there was no "savings" as promised. She was still really young and she told me she was super depressed about it for a long time.. I do wonder if this could be the catalyst..only something to consider which fortunately most of us don't go through something like this. mOO

 

[vls12345]

The Towns County Sheriff’s Office was the one that originally responded (and then called the GBI).

GBI Investigates Deaths on Bell Mountain in Towns County

UPDATE - 5/21/2025:The GBI has concluded the investigation into the deaths of Qaadir Malik Lewis and Naazir Rahim Lewis. Based on the results of the medical examiner’s autopsy and other investigative findings, their deaths have been ruled suicide-suicide. GBI agents have met with the Lewis...

gbi.georgia.gov

Recently, on a separate/unrelated case, there is now an investigation regarding the Towns County Sheriff in re: to actions toward a Hiawassee police officer. Things seem like a bit of a mess re: the Towns County Sheriff. MOO. I wonder if it affected other areas of work like this investigation of the deaths of the Lewis brothers? A special prosecutor has now been appointed to investigate the sheriff.

Georgia sheriff under scrutiny after heated clash with local police officer

Body camera footage reveals confrontation that led district attorney to call for special prosecutor.

www.atlantanewsfirst.com

Special prosecutor appointed to investigate Ga. sheriff after Atlanta News First investigation

Towns County Sheriff Kenneth Henderson under fire for possible criminal behavior.

www.atlantanewsfirst.com

 

[Centaurus]

Updated: now a double suicide. Autopsy confirms both boys fired the weapon.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/us/qaadir-naazir-lewis-georgia-deaths-cec

 

[fsngruv]

Updated: now a double suicide. Autopsy confirms both boys fired the weapon.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/us/qaadir-naazir-lewis-georgia-deaths-cec

It's behind a paywall. I don't know how to view it without subscribing.

 

[iamshadow21]

It's behind a paywall. I don't know how to view it without subscribing.

I could see it, and I'm in Australia, not the US. Strange.

Sounds like there was a pretty clear trail of evidence. It was a strange suicide, but twin suicides can be strange, like the two triplets in Scotland. Folie a deux.

MOO

 

[ChatteringBirds]

It's behind a paywall. I don't know how to view it without subscribing.

Among other details, it says they were found with their anime swords they liked to cosplay with. The autopsy showed both fired the gun, N indicated to his girlfriend that he felt financial stresses. He missed a flight to see her and did not rebook it. There were searches for videos about guns on their Gmail accounts, including how to load one. In a backpack nearby was Q's notebook and someone had written "Journey to the Afterlife." Some family members think it all doesn't make sense and was staged.

 

[iamshadow21]

Among other details, it says they were found with their anime swords they liked to cosplay with. The autopsy showed both fired the gun, N indicated to his girlfriend that he felt financial stresses. He missed a flight to see her and did not rebook it. There were searches for videos about guns on their Gmail accounts, including how to load one. In a backpack nearby was Q's notebook and someone had written "Journey to the Afterlife." Some family members think it all doesn't make sense and was staged.

That's the thing, it was staged, but by them. They had a picture in their heads of exactly how they wanted this to go. And when they took that journey, they decided. They had rope, didn't use it. Had whiskey, didn't drink it. They were flexible, but in the end, united in the choice they made, even down to the posed position of their bodies. They planned this meticulously. It was no impulse. The trail of the evidence goes back months.

People don't understand suicide, and especially don't understand how people can plan something so precisely for so long and just be living their life until that final moment. They think of suicide as something irrational and impulsive, when for some, it's a very calm, thought out, deliberate act. Those are the suicides we understand the least, because they are the ones least likely to show foreshadowing signs, and the most likely to be successful because of the high degree of planning for every factor likely to eventuate.

I sympathise with the family, but there's no conspiracy here, just two young men who chose to exit as they entered, together. There is absolutely nothing anyone could have done to prevent this.

MOO

 

[starlightstarbright]

It hurts my heart though thinking that one of them had to be the one to go first, and then the other seeing what happened to his brother followed him. A very intentional act, but still it really hurts my heart.

 

[iamshadow21]

It hurts my heart though thinking that one of them had to be the one to go first, and then the other seeing what happened to his brother followed him. A very intentional act, but still it really hurts my heart.

I think that, too, was a choice. They got a street gun with no issues, so presumably, they could have just as easily bought two. I think that was another thing they planned out, who would go first. Or maybe it came down to something like the flip of a coin. We'll never know.

MOO

 

[fsngruv]

Among other details, it says they were found with their anime swords they liked to cosplay with. The autopsy showed both fired the gun, N indicated to his girlfriend that he felt financial stresses. He missed a flight to see her and did not rebook it. There were searches for videos about guns on their Gmail accounts, including how to load one. In a backpack nearby was Q's notebook and someone had written "Journey to the Afterlife." Some family members think it all doesn't make sense and was staged.

Thanks for the information! Hopefully one I can view will be available to view soon, or some kinda soul might quote the article for my witless self?!

 

[fsngruv]

I could see it, and I'm in Australia, not the US. Strange.

Sounds like there was a pretty clear trail of evidence. It was a strange suicide, but twin suicides can be strange, like the two triplets in Scotland. Folie a deux.

MOO

In the top left of the article there's a box that says for subscribers only, I may have viewed too many CNN articles before? A box pops up asking me to subscribe for a year or pay 4 bucks for a monthly viewing.

 

[Leilei]

In the top left of the article there's a box that says for subscribers only, I may have viewed too many CNN articles before? A box pops up asking me to subscribe for a year or pay 4 bucks for a monthly viewing.

CNN started doing that a couple of years ago, I believe. It's very annoying.
IMO.