But that’s far from the only questions that remained unanswered. 

“How did they end up out in the mountains?” Rahim wondered of the boys, who had booked a flight to visit friends in Boston, the paper tickets for their March 7 trip discovered in their wallets. “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?”

Their aunt Yasmine Brawner also noted to WXIA-TV that the teens had a slew of resources at their disposal, should they have found themselves in one of life’s dicier situations. 

They “had a huge support system,” she stressed. “We know them. They wouldn’t do anything like this. To say they did this to each other? No. Something happened in those mountains, and we want answers.”

With Rahim sharing the family rejected the idea of a murder-suicide “right away,” they will continue to fight for the truth. As of now, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said, “The death investigation is active & ongoing.”

Here’s everything that’s been uncovered so far.