When Alexander “AJ” Jennings was offered a job on the Netflix series “Outer Banks,” he was “over the moon,” his mother, LuJean Jennings, said. The 22 year old from Grand Island, New York — a town between Buffalo and Niagara Falls — moved to Charleston in May to pursue his acting career. On the set of the hit action-adventure teen series, which debuted in 2020 and is currently filming its third season, Jennings served as a double for the show’s lead male actor, Chase Stokes, who plays the charismatic John B. Instantly, Jennings loved the Palmetto State, the mother said. He told his mom he loved Charleston for its beautiful nature and weather — which fit his active and adventurous lifestyle far more than Buffalo, where the sun sets by 5 p.m. in the winter.“Once he got there, even after the first couple of days on set, he said it was the happiest period of his life,” LuJean Jennings said. “And, therefore, I was excited for him. I mean this is what you want for your child.”Alexander “AJ” Jennings stood in as a double for the male lead in season 3 of “Outer Banks.” LuJean Jennings/ProvidedBut tragedy struck early July 5. As the actor was walking on Sol Legare Road near Crozet Drive on James Island, he was struck by two different vehicles, authorities say. He later died at Medical University of South Carolina. Both vehicles fled after the collisions. One vehicle was later located in downtown Charleston, but authorities continued to search July 6 for the second one, Charleston County sheriff’s spokesman Andrew Knapp said. No arrests have been in the case, Knapp said, and no description of the second vehicle was available. LuJean Jennings told The Post and Courier that her son called her shortly after midnight telling her that he had been separated from his friends at a Fourth of July party and was unable to reach an Uber driver to take him home. LuJean Jennings said she called several local cab companies to pick her son up outside the Harris Teeter on Trolly Road, where he said he was located, but her calls went straight to recordings. At 1:30 a.m., the mother and son spoke again. He had good news: an Uber driver was scheduled to pick him up in 24 minutes. His phone battery had drained to 1 percent, however. LuJean Jennings told her son to remain patient. The mother said she called her son to check in 30 minutes later but her call went straight to his voicemail. After waiting up a while longer in her New York home, she decided to sleep for a few hours and give her son a wake-up call at 6:30 a.m. — his call time for ‘Outer Banks’ was 7:30 a.m., he had told her. That call also went straight to voicemail. She said she was not panicking yet, “but within a couple of minutes after me making that call … [a] state trooper was banging at my front door.”The officer delivered the terrible news: Her son had been hit and killed by a car. Outer Banks cast and crew members mourned Jennings’ death.
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