A Real Housewives star has suffered another devastating blow after the teenage daughter of her ex-fianc̩ was shot in a road rage incident Рjust two years after he was killed in a brawl.
Asheley Jewell, 15, is fighting for her life in an Atlanta hospital after being shot in the head during a car chase.
She is the daughter of A.J. Jewell, who was engaged to reality TV star Kandi Burruss and appeared in the first series of the Bravo show.
Fighting for her life: Asheley Jewell is in a critical condition in hospital after she was shot while riding in a car with friends in Atlanta
Grammy award-winning singer Miss Burruss, who is still close to Mr Jewell’s daughters, wrote on Twitter: ‘My heart feels heavy today. I have my daughter and her friends so I’m trying to keep smiling but I’m worried about someone else I care about.’
The latest tragedy comes less than two years after her former fiancé was killed in a fight outside an Atlanta strip club in October 2009.
His daughter Asheley was shot as she rode along the Old National Highway in Atlanta in a car with four other friends at around 10.30pm on Saturday.
They were on their way to get some food when a car began chasing them – and one of its passengers opened fire.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports Asheley was shot in the back of the head in what police believe to be road rage incident. She was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital where she remains in a critical condition.
Asheley’s cousin, Ebony Phillips, told Fox 5: ‘We deserve to know what happened to her. Why is it that you can’t ride down the street, mind your own business, go get food without being shot?’
Her father appeared in the first series of Real Housewives of Atlanta when he was Miss Burruss’s fiance.
The couple seemed happy and were seen planning their wedding.
But they broke up shortly after the series ended, amid reports her family were unhappy with Mr Jewell, who fathered six children with multiple women.
He was killed only four months after the split, in a brawl outside a strip club.
Prosecutors initially ruled his death was homicide, but later dropped manslaughter charges after an autopsy revealed he died from complications relating to his sickle cell anaemia.
At the time Miss Burruss, who was a member of R&B band Xscape, was granted custody of his twin 12-year-old daughters. She also has a daughter of her own.
When he died she wrote on her blog: ‘I hate to question God, but don’t you hate it when you feel like somebody has been taken away too soon?
‘I just feel like A.J. had so much more living to do.’
