Kandi Burruss and Ashley "A.J." Jewell
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"His death comes on the heels of the death of my beloved Uncle Ralph and with both of them gone, my heart is heavy with grief," Burruss, 33, said in a statement Sunday.
Jewell, 34, died Saturday of massive head injuries sustained while in a fight in the parking lot of an Atlanta strip bar. Homicide detectives have arrested Fredrick Richardson and charged him with voluntary manslaughter, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
"I had spoken to A.J. two hours before I got the call that he was in the hospital," said Burruss, a singer-songwriter who has worked with TLC and Mariah Carey. "Never in a thousand years did I think it was going to be the last time I heard his voice. He was taken way too soon. There are so many things that I should have said to him, wanted to say to him ... But now it's too late."
