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

[MelmothTheLost]

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

I'm afraid this conclusion is exactly what I and many others expected, but I suspect no evidence will ever be enough for the parents because it's simply not what they want to believe.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

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?!

Paywalled articles have to be briefly paraphrased only, not directly quoted.

 

[Auntie Cipation]

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.

Sometimes when that happens one can disregard that annoying box and still see the (faded but legible) text of the article in the background.

It's also possible for non-USians that you need to find your country's CNN URL (rather than bringing up the US version) and then search for keywords to find the article.

 

[fsngruv]

Paywalled articles have to be briefly paraphrased only, not directly quoted.

Good to know!!! Thank you!! I apologize for asking!

 

[Quill]

Sadly it sounds like they lived in a very "virtual" world. I wonder if this helps explain the lack of peers and others outside of the family coming forward when speaking of them? Such a sad case.

 

[Muddy K]

I'm afraid this conclusion is exactly what I and many others expected, but I suspect no evidence will ever be enough for the parents because it's simply not what they want to believe.

I don't want to believe it either. That doesn't mean I don't accept it, though. I do. Yet, this one is going to haunt me forever.

I look at these twin brothers and I just don't see two lives already over.

IMO, it's part of human nature to want to understand. I so want to understand, but I know I never will. For me, that's harder to accept.

 

[Onlyguessing23]

New Info In Twins' Deaths Atop GA Mountain Released

Authorities said the gun used to kill twin brothers from metro Atlanta was stolen, a media report says, citing the GBI's case file.

patch.com

 

[Onlyguessing23]

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?!

My attempt was also blocked by a paywall, but on my iPhone I’m able to choose Show Reader and then I can read the full article. I hope that helps.

Reposted below from earlier poster.

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

 

[Cedars]

I suspect no evidence will ever be enough for the parents because it's simply not what they want to believe.

I wish the kids had left a note, making it clear what they were doing, if not why. And that the parents weren't to blame.

Because if they accepy it, the family will blame themselves (or each other).

JMO

 

[Leilei]

This just hurts my heart. I'm in the ATL area, and I have twin sons (older than these young men were) who are so very close.
It feels worse to me that it ended up being suicide. It would have been terrible if they had been murdered, but the fact that these beautiful young men felt that they had no other choice but to do what they did is just tragic.
So very sad.
IMO.

 

[Charlot123]

I can imagine how much their lives must have changed when dad had a stroke. They both had a house and attended colleges. I assume that they were lost and confused about their future; life, adobe, money. It is impossible to guess but my feeling is that they were hopeless. They were just 19 years of age. It is easy to feel lost at this time.

I am wondering…there should be some student resources in both schools. Would they contain lists of scholarships or funds for people of color? I remember how eons ago, maybe in 2006-2010, I saw binders with lists of such resources in my city library. Our community had few African-Americans but the book was there.

Would the community leaders have some resources perhaps? To me it looks like the boys’ situation had changed and perhaps they were too proud to ask the family members for help?

I think that young people like them - nice and kind kids, no bad history, certainly having potential - need to know the contacts or resources, just one person to call, who’d help them out.

How I wish that instead of Googling for guns and suicide, they’d Google for Scholarships for Black American students. I just found a Gucci scholarship and thought darn, they wanted to be designers!

Very sad. RIP, boys.

 

[MelmothTheLost]

I don't want to believe it either. That doesn't mean I don't accept it, though. I do.

That's the difference. You can accept something even if you don't want to. Unfortunately there are others with so much emotional capital invested in only one acceptable solution that they will mentally reorder the reality around them to block actual reality out.

It's something we saw a few years ago in the Croydon Cat Killer thread where the animal group campaigning on the supposed issue simply refused to accept the results of the years' long police investigation.

 

[CuriousCricket]

I can imagine how much their lives must have changed when dad had a stroke. They both had a house and attended colleges. I assume that they were lost and confused about their future; life, adobe, money. It is impossible to guess but my feeling is that they were hopeless. They were just 19 years of age. It is easy to feel lost at this time.

I am wondering…there should be some student resources in both schools. Would they contain lists of scholarships or funds for people of color? I remember how eons ago, maybe in 2006-2010, I saw binders with lists of such resources in my city library. Our community had few African-Americans but the book was there.

Would the community leaders have some resources perhaps? To me it looks like the boys’ situation had changed and perhaps they were too proud to ask the family members for help?

I think that young people like them - nice and kind kids, no bad history, certainly having potential - need to know the contacts or resources, just one person to call, who’d help them out.

How I wish that instead of Googling for guns and suicide, they’d Google for Scholarships for Black American students. I just found a Gucci scholarship and thought darn, they wanted to be designers!

Very sad. RIP, boys.

So very easy to feel lost. To feel that today is permanent and the way things will always be. I believe it is so important to teach youngsters as they grow about life going in cycles. "Just wait six months". If kids know that things change and can change completely in a few months, somehow that makes things bearable, I think.

Add that to helping them know about resources . . .

One is the parents' job -- the cycles of life -- and the other is the schools'. As educators are in a position to know and point out specific possibilities that parents themselves likely won't know about. Kids that don't ask for help are usually the ones who need it the most.

Our guidance counselor (back in the dark ages) was useless. Seemed to just sit in her office and wait for the rich kids to go to her. It is my opinion that counselors might present programs each quarter or semester to all the students. Often, so that a kid that ignores the program one time might catch it the next, or a child who desperately needs a glimmer of hope.

But the biggest thing to me is teaching: mark your calendar for six months from now and see if you still feel the same. Don't do something permanent for a temporary situation.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

But the biggest thing to me is teaching: mark your calendar for six months from now and see if you still feel the same.

Depression, anxiety, bullying, financial pressures, academic pressures, etc. can last years, though. Years and years.

 

[Quill]

I can imagine how much their lives must have changed when dad had a stroke. They both had a house and attended colleges. I assume that they were lost and confused about their future; life, adobe, money. It is impossible to guess but my feeling is that they were hopeless. They were just 19 years of age. It is easy to feel lost at this time.

I am wondering…there should be some student resources in both schools. Would they contain lists of scholarships or funds for people of color? I remember how eons ago, maybe in 2006-2010, I saw binders with lists of such resources in my city library. Our community had few African-Americans but the book was there.

Would the community leaders have some resources perhaps? To me it looks like the boys’ situation had changed and perhaps they were too proud to ask the family members for help?

I think that young people like them - nice and kind kids, no bad history, certainly having potential - need to know the contacts or resources, just one person to call, who’d help them out.

How I wish that instead of Googling for guns and suicide, they’d Google for Scholarships for Black American students. I just found a Gucci scholarship and thought darn, they wanted to be designers!

Very sad. RIP, boys.

Georgia has tons of scholarship opportunities funded by the Georgia state lottery, starting with the Hope scholarship.