The two African American brothers being questioned over the Jussie Smollett attack are actors Abimbola 'Abel' and Olabinjo 'Ola' Osundairo, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The pair were picked up by police at Chicago O'Hare Airport on Wednesday as they arrived back in America after visiting family in Nigeria to be questioned over the January 29 attack involving the star.
Family say they went to Africa on January 29, hours after the Smollett attack.
Ola appeared on Empire in 2015 and both brothers have had minor roles on Chicago PD.
Smollett, who has been accused of staging the attack to save his job on the Fox show, follows their joint Instagram account and, according to their lawyer, sometimes goes to the gym with them.
The brothers' names are also included on a list of evidence that was left at their home after Chicago PD officers ransacked it on Thursday and the pair are listed in public records as the tenants of that house.
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Abimbola 'Abel' (left), 25, and Olabinjo 'Ola' Osundairo (right) are the two brothers being questioned over the Jussie Smollett attack whose home was raided in Chicago on Wednesday
Ola appeared on the second season of Empire as an extra. He is shown with Lee Daniels, the show's creator, on set in 2015
The brothers' names are included in the list of evidence left at the home by Chicago PD officers who also found an 'Empire script', bleach, black ski masks and phone records at the home
Smollett follows the brothers' joint Instagram account where they post videos and photographs of themselves working out
Before returning to the US on Wednesday, they shared photographs and videos on Instagram of their time in Nigeria.
Neither has been charged and Chicago Police Department has until 5.45pm on Friday to arrest them or release them.
Their lawyer Gloria Schmidt spoke out on Thursday to say they were 'baffled' by the allegations against them and that they are innocent.
'They were actually detained at customs at O’Hare airport yesterday around 5:45 p.m.
'They had no idea what was going on, and they’ve been detained since then,' Gloria Schmidt, the pair's lawyer, told CBS Chicago on Thursday night.
'When they first learned about what happened to him they were horrified.
'This is someone they know. This is someone they’ve worked with, so they don’t want to see somebody go through that.
'They are really baffled why they are people of interest.
'They really don’t understand how they even got information that linked them to this horrific crime, but they are not guilty of it,' she said.
TMZ reported that detectives found the men by looking at ride-sharing history records from the night of the attack.
Among items police seized from the home were black ski masks. It is not known if they were the same as those shown above which the brothers sell online. Smollett said one of his attackers was wearing a ski mask when
