Sad Update: Julian King Likely Found (Jennifer Hudson's Nephew)

[VegasLactivist]

Chicago police just found the white SUV and there was a small boy (dead) in the car.

Authorities are saying it is likely Jennifer Hudson's missing nephew, Julian King.

They found the car 14 miles away from the Crime Scene.

The Cook County medical examiner's office has sent investigators to the scene in the 1300 block of South Kolin, where the boy was found around 8 a.m. today, an office spokesman said.

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[Sashahomeschoolmama]

:( I knew that was the likely scenario but it makes me so sad. Her world is destroyed.

[TuetonicWillow]

I had to google Jennifer Hudson. No idea who she is.

Terrible story.

[VegasLactivist]

Jennifer Hudson's Wikipedia Page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Hudson)

[VegasLactivist]

Live Crime Scene Video Feed On TMZ (Sensitive!!) (http://www.tmz.com/2008/10/27/body-found/)

[Miamimama]

How sad for all of those involved. Ho sad also if it wasn't her nephew and family involved noone would have ever known about it.

[VegasLactivist]

Body Found -- Matches Missing Boy
Posted Oct 27th 2008 9:38AM by TMZ Staff

Chicago cops have found the body of a child and are investigating whether it's the body of Jennifer Hudson's nephew, Julian King. The medical examiner has not yet made an ID, but we are now told the body is that of a 7-year-old African American boy, the same age and race as Julian.


The body was found inside a 1994 white Chevy Suburban. It is the same SUV owned by Jason Hudson, the murdered brother of Jennifer. Before his arrest, cops were looking for William Balfour, the suspect and estranged husband of Jennifer's sister. The license plate of the Suburban matches Jason's SUV.

The SUV was found a few miles from the area where cops arrested Balfour.

The SUV is now being towed from the scene. Unclear if the body is still at the scene. No ID so far.

Neighbors say the vehicle has been parked there since Saturday. Balfour was arrested Friday night.

The SUV has been towed with the body still inside the vehicle. The SUV is now at a police garage in Chicago.


Story developing......

[jessiehannan]

That poor baby, no matter who he is. :(

[VegasLactivist]

More here (http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ggHWl2bJyIWhtn_vrk6kQUg_aRvQ)

[HammBugga]

:(

[daniela]

:( doesn't make any sense :(

[VegasLactivist]

No, it doesn't. I thought for sure that other little boy that was abducted by the mexican drug cartel would also be found deceased. At least for him, he was returned alive to his family.

Whomever did this to this poor little boy needs to fry. Rot in hell, hang till he/she is dead, something of that nature. What a MONSTER.

[QuiltyConscience]

It makes me so sad and angry. About William Balfour:

The 27-year-old baker has convictions for attempted murder, vehicular hijacking and possession of a stolen motor vehicle, according to the Illinois Department of Corrections. He was released from prison in May 2006 and is still on probation.

It said police declined to name Balfour as a suspect, saying they were only interviewing him and that he has not been charged with the murders.

Balfour had split up with Julia Hudson and moved out of the home she shared with her family, friends and neighbors said.

Yet again, a violent offender released from prison .

And no, I do not know for sure he did it.

[Born_a_Diva]

No, it doesn't. I thought for sure that other little boy that was abducted by the mexican drug cartel would also be found deceased. At least for him, he was returned alive to his family.

Whomever did this to this poor little boy needs to fry. Rot in hell, hang till he/she is dead, something of that nature. What a MONSTER.


I agree...how do people get to the pont of murder like this and then to the point of murdering children?!?

[QuiltyConscience]

http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/1243176,jennifer-hudson-murder-william-balfour-102608.article


Balfour, who has not lived at the Yale house since May, was paroled in 2006 after convictions for attempted murder, vehicular hijacking and receiving stolen property, state records show. He spent nearly seven years in prison.

Police spokeswoman Monique Bond said Sunday morning that Balfour, Julia Hudson's estranged husband, had been transferred to the Illinois Department of Corrections and is being held for parole violations from his attempted murder conviction. The transfer was not related to Friday's murder or kidnapping investigation, Bond added.

I can't find a name of who he tried to murder in 1999. Sounds like a lovely individual.

[still_me]

I feel so bad for Jennifer Hudson.

I feel for celebrities, or anyone really, when they have such a tragic event enter their lives and it is played out across national/international news. The healing must be more prolonged because no matter where they go, they see it everywhere.

[JudyJudyJudy]

I can't even imagine what Julia and Jennifer are going through. :(

[VegasLactivist]

It's confirmed. It's him. Peace be with that poor suffering family. Rest in Peace sweet precious little one.
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Singer's 7-year-old nephew found dead in SUV

CHICAGO – Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson's 7-year-old nephew was found dead in the back of an SUV on Monday, ending a frantic search that began after the shooting deaths of her mother and brother three days earlier.

The singer and actress was among seven family members and close friends who cried and held hands as they identified Julian King's body from a live image on a television screen at the Cook County Medical Examiner's office Monday afternoon.

Chicago police spokeswoman Monique Bond said the boy, like his grandmother and uncle, had been shot. The medical examiner's office planned a Tuesday autopsy.

Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis said a motive remained unclear Monday but added, "It wasn't a case of a stranger-type homicide."

Police have characterized the slayings as "domestic related" and authorities have been questioning the boy's estranged stepfather, who is being held in state custody on a parole violation. No one has been charged in the slayings.

Julian's body was found shortly after 7 a.m. in the rear seat of the SUV, which was parked on the street in a neighborhood of brownstone homes and apartment buildings about 10 miles from the home he shared with the other victims. The vehicle matched the one mentioned in an Amber Alert issued for Julian.

Hudson had offered $100,000 Sunday for information leading to the safe return of her nephew, the son of her sister, Julia Hudson. Hudson's publicist did not immediately return calls and e-mail messages Monday.

"Miss Hudson wanted to request privacy," Cook County spokesman Sean Howard said after the family left the medical examiner's office. "This is a very trying time for her and her family."

Hudson's aunt, Dorothy Hudson, said the Chicago funeral home she owns with her husband will handle arrangements for the family, but details were pending.

"We're just sad. We're going through this stage where we're just sad and in shock," Dorothy Hudson said.

The Amber Alert had listed William Balfour, the estranged husband of Julia Hudson, as a suspect in a "double homicide investigation." He is not the boy's father and has not been charged in the slayings.

Weis said Monday that Balfour "remains a person of interest."

The chief said he was confident that with two crime scenes, investigators would find important clues.

Balfour, 27, was taken into custody for questioning Friday after the bodies of Hudson's 57-year-old mother, Darnell Donerson, and 29-year-old brother, Jason Hudson, were found.

On Sunday, Balfour was transferred to the Illinois Department of Corrections, where a spokeswoman declined Monday to discuss his parole violation.

Corrections records show Balfour spent nearly seven years in prison for attempted murder, vehicular hijacking and possessing a stolen vehicle. He was expected to remain in state custody until the Illinois Prisoner Review Board looked at his case.

Balfour's mother, Michele Balfour, has said Hudson's mother kicked Balfour out of the family home last winter. She denied her son had anything to do with the killings.

It was unclear whether Balfour had an attorney.

Lynette Louden, 47, said she called police about the SUV across the street from her home on Chicago's West Side after her family's Chihuahua started barking at it early Monday. Some neighbors said they hadn't seen the vehicle before Monday, but Louden said it had been there since at least Saturday.

"I only hoped the body wasn't in there," she said. "When they said that it was, I cried."

Weis said police were waiting for the autopsy to determine how long the boy had been dead, but estimated the vehicle was parked on the street "a couple of days."

When asked how officers could have missed the SUV during their massive search, Weis noted that Chicago is a big city and that the vehicle was "several miles away from the first crime scene."

Steve Peterson, head of the department's Bureau of Investigative Services, said the search for the boy had been centered farther east based on information they had about where Balfour's current girlfriend lives.

Hudson, 27, who won an Academy Award for best supporting actress in 2007 for her role in "Dreamgirls," returned to Chicago to be with her family during the weekend. She also had identified the bodies of her mother and brother.

Neighbors and well-wishers brought stuffed animals and other items to a makeshift memorial outside Donerson's two-story white clapboard home as news of Monday's discovery spread. A candlelight vigil was planned Monday night.

A neighborhood anti-violence group signed up volunteers in front of the home and a boy gently placed a new brown teddy bear with the growing mound of tributes.

Eight-year-old Devontae Brown of Chicago said he and his mother brought the bear to the home because "it's sad to be killing young brothers."

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Associated Press writers Don Babwin, Carla K. Johnson and Michael Tarm contributed to this report.

[Bellaelle]

That poor little angel. )=
I don't understand why he had to kill a defenseless child. I certainly hope he will face the death penalty.

[NewMum]

Why anyone is let out of jail after attempted murder is beyond me. It's just like saying, "Ok, you tried, but didn't do it all the way. Go try again." The system is flawed. This makes me angry and just sick to my stomach.

That poor boy! And his poor family! This all could have been avoided...

[cc1003]

Heartbreaking. I just cannot even imagine.

[Bellaelle]

Here is the asswipes Myspace. He mentions the little boy as his stepson. Asshole.

http://www.myspace.com/flexamillion_1

[VegasLactivist]

I hope he isn't the guilty one. But it sure looks like he's the one responsible.

[VegasLactivist]

I hope he isn't the guilty one. But it sure looks like he's the one responsible.