GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — Family members and advocates on Friday contended an official determination by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation that twins Qaadir and Naazir Lewis died by suicide at Bell Mountain in March does not add up.

Advocates, including Georgia NAACP President Gerald Griggs, likened the conclusion to the initial law enforcement determinations made in the Ahmaud Arbery case, which video infamously later emerged to counter .

"We know what a lynching looks like, we know what it smells like, we know what a coverup starts out like," Griggs said Friday. "...The whole purpose of the NAACP is to investigate lynchings, and this smells like a lynching."

A statement from the twins' father and stepmother read by their uncle at a press conference on Friday said that "almost thre

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