Real Housewives of Atlanta’s Kandi Burruss, is dealing with the tragic death of her fiancé, Ashley ‘AJ’ Jewell, who made frequent appearances on the hit Bravo reality show. Channel 2 news of Atlanta broke the story late Friday night of his death.
Reportedly, AJ received a severe head injury during a fight at ‘The Body Tap Club’ in Atlanta. He was taken to Piedmont Hospital where he later died.
Police said they have not determined a motive for the brawl, but the investigation is still under way. “It appears he was involved in an altercation in the parking lot and he received a severe blow to the head,” stated Atlanta Police Lt. Keith Meadows.
Kandi Burruss’ publicist, Lisa Nelson, confirmed to reporters that the incident has left Kandi stunned and speechless. It has also been reported that Kandi will be attending the funeral of her uncle today (October 3rd).
Kandi left this message on her twitter page early Saturday morning:
I’m bout 2 give my swollen eyes some rest now. I just wanted to say thanks 2 everyone for their prayers. I gotta get up & go 2 my uncle’s funeral. I could never in a million years imagine this happening. Please pray for AJ’s children, that’s who im the most concerned 4. Im just in one of those moods where I dont wanna talk, I dont wanna b held & told its gonna b ok. I just wanna cry myself 2 sleep, alone.
Story and investigation still developing. Our condolences go out to Kandi and AJ’s family. He was a father of 6 children.
Lord help..praying for his children and Kandi..so sad.
….sad in da scrip club wow
Man this is really sad news.. Pray for her fam ppl.
Man this crazy news.
I know Kandi is going through it right now. If yall didn’t know her uncle died earlier this week, and now this. So sad, I can’t imagine the pain his family is going through.
hmmm.. im soo speechless myself. shocked. R.I.P AJ, he seemed really nice n sweet. i can only imagine the pain kandi feels… be strong girl..the lord is ur strength…may he comfort you and ur family in this time of tragedy.,
Poor Kandi and his 6 kids. That’s a horrible way to die and will be hard for the family to get past. RIP AJ
This is terrible. Prayers for Kandi and all families involved.
THIS IS TOO SAD! I HOPE HE DIDNT DIE B/C OF MONEY. KANDI IS SUCH A SWEET GIRL, IT SEEMS THAT DEATH IS ALL AROUND HER, BUT REMEMBER GOD DOESNT PUT NO MORE ON US THAN WE CAN BARE AND SHE IS STRONG. I LIVE IN ATL AND WAS OUT TONIGHT AND WHEN I HEARD ABOUT THIS, I TOOK MY ASS HOME B/C FOLKS WAS WILDIN OUT. R.I.P. TO AJ AND MY THOUGHTS ARE WITH EVERYONE AFFECTED BY THIS. BE SAFE YALL!
This so sad and it pains me to read. 6 children are going to grow up without their father because violence. Its one thing to have a disagreement but its something else when things to get physical and a life is taken. We really have to do better my heart is with all the family and friends of AJ. All this violence needs to stop!
This is so sad. I can’t believe it. I send my love and prayers to Kandi and his family. It’s hard to lose someone you love.
I jus recently started watching that show and i like Kandi Very down to earth nice woman and my condolences go out to her and his children
Poor Kandi, she is so sweet! And everybody was giving her a hard time about taking care of two of his girls after they broke up. Kandi, keep listening to God. My prayers go out to his kids and family.
OMG!!!
That sucks….stay strong Kandi
Smh…that is horrible…
I’m praying for Kandi and all of AJs children and loved ones. Is this for real? Damn life is short
Oh wow alot of terrible things have happened to kandi and her family. That is such a tragic loss. END THE VIOLENCE!
kandi i’m so sorry. i just watched you on youtube talking about him and the ‘brady bunch’ to b. scott………………my condolences. XSCAPE FAN TOO.
So sad, may he R.I.P and my prayers go out to the family.
the WORST things happen to the BEST of people. kandi is strong, and god aint give her more than she can handle. my condolences go out to Kandi, AJ’s kids, and family.
yo I was there tonite and i am in complete shock! Y..Y we as black people can’t get along!? y must we fight one another and go off killin folks. my mans was there having a good time. minding his business! i feel so bad for kandi its like nothing is going right for when she does so well. babygirl i pray 4 u more than i will pray for myself because for me to not know yo guy and to see that s*** go down i am hurt. i’ve done my part and helped out the police and hope they find the bastards that did this! real talk!!
R.I.P. to AJ. Thoughts to his family. I never watched the program but this is sad. R.I.P. young man.
This violence needs to end.
….damn, kandi my fav character on the show…i was rooting for him & her too
….bless her heart
I send my condelences to Kandi and all..
But I still dont understand why she needed to go on Twitter at a time like this. I mean she has just lost her husband, using silly sites such as twitter or facebook or irrelevant when you lose someone close to you who you love.
I swear this world is going crazy, Its like everyones lost all sense of moral code.
Yeh I would not use twitter @ a time like this if I was her…
You sure that it was the legit twitter account?
This touched me like he was my own. I pray Kandi can make it thru this.
There is nothing wrong with Kandi using twitter to talk to her fans/supporters. She is a self-confessed twitter addict so it makes sense that she wanted to thank people for their prayers. That has nothing to do with a moral code.
Kandi keep your head up, I’m praying for you and yours.
OH WOW this is Terrible news!! I wud have never expected this! God bless his family and kids and lord please take care of Kandi! That must be so hard for her to lose her uncle AND the love of her life! I hope they get the asshole who killed him cuz that is MURDER and he shud go to jail! This is jus waaayyy toooo tooo sad
@ Candee Renee Free Lil Boosie
You said ” God will put no more on us than we can bare.” But where in the bible does it say that? I’ve looked in both the New and Old Testaments and I don’t see that statement anywhere. That’s just a phrase people made up to deal with pain.
Im sorry that this happened to Kandi. But this sort of think happens everyday in the Black community. It is in Black culture to kill people. That’s just what Black people do. If someone disrespects you or makes you feel small, you fight to kill them.
While some blacks try to educate themselves, the others stay back and kill each other. It’s just a way of life. So either we try to stop the violence, or we just get used to it. Because I am so tired of crying over someone that was killed. It seems like an everyday thing.
Black on Black crime is the #1 cause of Black deaths. Not AIDS. Not heart disease. Not cancer. But VIOLENCE!!!!!
oh no. all those children without a father. he seemed like a really awesome guy to judging from the show’s stand point.
my prayers go out to his family and kandi as well…
Poor Kandi she done had a lot of tragic events in her life and she seems real cool and from the show AJ seem real cool too,sad
OMG!!! My Friend just texted me this info!!!! OMG!! I feel so horrible for her… They were so in love….
Wow dis is crazy…they made da cutest couple..my heart gose out to his family and kandi I know she going through it right now keep ya head up mama
I really like Kandi personality I’m sorry to hear that this has happened to her and I hope that she will get the comfort and support she needs
OMG my condolences go out to Kandi/A.J’s family. O lawd all those babies now have no father now! STOP THE violence people!
RIP
Yo this is crazy! I feel so bad for Kandi…I wonder how Kandi’s mother feel. She didn’t even want to give him a chance…smh
My heart goes out to her this is shocking … in my prayers today.
Nothing wrong with her twittering … thats he way of dealing with it, why are people so ignorant they are telling a woman how to grieve. They have no idea what she is going through … negative ppl alwayz got something to say!!
@28 this is the exact quote from the New World Translation 2 Corinthians 10:13
“No temptation has taken YOU except what is common to men. But God is faithful, and he will not let YOU be tempted beyond what YOU can bear, but along with the temptation he will also make the way out in order for YOU to be able to endure it.”
Man she is having a rough year.
Poor thing. Now all those children are fatherless. This is so tragic.
i hate that aj died lord knows i do but y was he at a strip club when he had kandi ?
I am so saddened…I drempt about a murder in a club lastnight…DAMN….
Some of you guys are just so ignorant, give your blessings because it is a tragedy and NO ONE should ever have to go through something like this. Forget all the other mess you have said about Twitter and black on black crime. No one knows the full story on what happened, except that RIGHT NOW, its a tragedy and she just needs love and support from family and friends. I swear, I never like to read what people say on here because there’s always a couple of you that are just straight ignorant. Next time, leave your ignorant comments to yourself. R. I.P. AJ
Wow… life . Just yesterday i was watching her concert AJ in the front row, and now hes dead
Sorry Kandi .
Someone is dying everyday Oh My God
What will happen to his kids???
This is sooooo incredibly sad. That’s the problem when people fight, often times 2 people who fight don’t have the intention on killing the other person, but when u fight u can get so mad and do something to the other person that you never intended to happen, like murder. Now 2 black men have been taken from the black community, all over something that I’m sure wasn’t worth it. One will likely spend the rest of his life in jail and the other has been taken away and left 6 children behind who didn’t deserve to lose their father over nonsense. I just can’t understand, I don’t want to understand. Life is hard enough without other people adding to the madness. It needs to stop, I want it to stop, but wanting that is like fighting a losing a battle. My prayers go out to AJ’s children, Kandi, and his family and friends. Rest in Peace!
DaM kant believed dis happend smh i was sooo ready 2c da wedding on housewives ughhh but R.I.P AJ and my condolences go out 2 kandi and AJs fam
This is crazy! First Gerald Levert, now AJ! I know she’s really hurting right now, along w/his family. No matter what was said about him, I thought he was very handsome & laid back, and if he made Kandi happy, then nothing else mattered.
So sorry to hear that.
R.I.P to A.J. I was in shock too. Angel I appreciate you not getting an attitude on Twitter lastnight if you were getting responses from your readers.
WOW!!!!! They say mothers know best. Kandi’s mom pegged this one right. Sorry about such a bad tragedy.
Dis so sad… My prayers go out to her, his family, and kids. Stop The Violence seriously
PRAYERS AND BLESSINGS TO ALL THAT KNEW and CARED FOR AJ,,,,,I PRAY THAT HIS MURDERER IS tAKEN OFF THE STREETS!!!!
UNNECESSARY VIOLENCE!! THIS SHIT HAS GOT TO STOP PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THey were NO longer engaged(Kandi spoke about that on WENDY WILLIAMS show) but she had temporary custody of his 2 kids. She said they were still good Friends.
My prayers go out to Kandi and her family as well as Aj’s family. My father passed away when I was younger and that was so hard for me so I know it is going to be rough for those kids.
Kandi…I’m so sorry to hear this. I don’t know you or him personally, but to loose your soulmate has to be one of the worse things to ever go through.
May God’s love comfort and keep you at this difficult time.
WOW, poor Kandi, I pray that GOd gives her strength to get through this. SHe appears to be a very sweet and positve person.
This is sooo crazy & shocking!
RIP AJ. Prayers to Kandi & your family
When is it going to stop? This man is gone for a non-sense reason I bet. Leaving 6 little beautiful children. We are living in our last days. Killing is not the way. When you take a life you take many of lives, there’s the mother, the father, the brothers the sisters, the kids, cousins, wife, husband, friends and many of more that you hurt. Why, why, why, why put so many people to foolish things. Kandi stay strong and I know the pain is in your soul, your heart, and your body. Not only the pain from your uncle, but for AJ and his kids. Kandi take care of you. I know you hurt and most of all you have a beautiful daughter who loves you and need you. God bless you and all the familes. May the one who took AJ live find peace to do the right thing, I pray for there familes as well.
prayers go out to candi and his fam
@38 please read-per Ron Edmonson.com a minister:
I occasionally like to correct a myth I have heard all my life. How many times has someone said to you, “God will never put more trials on you than you can bear”? I challenge you to show me that in the Bible. The problem I have with this myth is that it keeps so many believers wondering why they can’t handle their problems, falsely believing they should be able to, because someone once told them the lie that God would not put more on them than they could.
Yes, we do have the promise that we will not be “tempted beyond what you can bear” (1 Corinthians 10:13), but you need to understand what that verse is saying. It says that God will not allow Satan to bring temptation, or enticement to sin, into your life that is too much for you to say no to it. When you are tempted to sin, God will make a way for you to resist it. That is because He wants you to live holy, just as Christ who calls you is holy.
Consistently, throughout the Bible, I read where at times God allowed more trials, more pressure, than His children could bear. Elijah, the powerful prophet of God who held back the rain had a time when the trial must have been bigger than his ability to handle it. Consider this verse: “The angel of the LORD came back a second time and touched him and said, “Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you.” (1 Kings 19:7) Once when Paul wrote to the people at Corinth (2 Corinthians 1:8), he told them they faced trials “far beyond our ability to endure”. David, the great war hero and man after God’s own heart, told the Lord that “troubles without number surround me” and “and I cannot see”. He couldn’t see clearly, because he was overwhelmed with the storms of life! Another time David said “Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck.”( Oh how I identify with David there!) Jehoshaphat prayed, “We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.” (2 Chronicles 20:12) It sounds like he was facing more than he could handle on his own.
Are there times when God allows more troubles in your life than you can bear? Absolutely! Positively! If you can accept my testimony as an example, let me tell you that sometimes life throws more at me than I can handle, at least more than I can handle alone. The reason God allows you and I to experience times when we are consumed by trials, when they are bigger than our own strength can handle, is so that we have no where else to turn, except towards Him. We are faced with one solution, and that we realize Christ is our only hope!
After Paul wrote that his trial was bigger than his ability to endure, he offers an explanation. “But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.” (2 Corinthians 1:9) He recognized that this overwhelming time of trouble, that he couldn’t handle alone, had caused him to focus more on the power of God, and allow God to work His perfect will.
Are you being challenged beyond your ability to endure? Don’t believe that you can do it alone! You can’t! Jesus said, “apart from me you can do nothing!” Did you get that point? Nothing! Don’t try anything today without relying on the power of God! He knows your weak, but He is available to help, if you will call upon Him! When we are at our weakest, He is strong!
@M-Lew I’m not agreeing or disagreeing with you. It’s just that (most times) people, clergy , ministers included. Try to make GOD too deep for the average living human being. Simply put for me I have had some trial and tribulations but with the power that GOD has invested in me and faith “I can do ALL things through Christ that strengthens me” God is not as complex as you all make him out to be. He wants us strengthen, empowered, he wants nothing but good for those who believe. It is as simple as this “FAITH” accepting and knowing GOD for who he is PERSONALLY to that individual. Let’s stop chasing people away from GOD with human complexity. Much love