OlderMon, 27 October 2008 at 5:22 pm
Body of Jennifer Hudson’s Nephew Found
The body of Julian King, Jennifer Hudson’s 7-year-old nephew was discovered Monday in a white SUV on Chicago’s West Side.
Law enforcement sources said that the boy was shot multiple times in the back of the vehicle, with at least one gun shot to the head.
The boy’s stepfather, William Balfour, 27, is currently in the custody of state officials but has not been formally charged.
Our hearts are extended to the entire Hudson family.
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Oh God. This is awful. My heart goes to Jennifer. What a tragedy!
I pray for God to grant Jennifer and her family some kind of peace. I can only imagine how the sorrow would feel. Being a mother of a boy around that age it really hit home. I was thinking of how he was probable looking forward to Halloween, probable had a costume picked out or at least one in mind. I hope God brought him to his arms quickly and he didn’t have to suffer.
I know this sounds heartless but the man who killed him is a worthless human being, he doesn’t deserve to live on this planet. I agree with the death penalty in this case also!
woah. i feel really bad for her. first her mother and brother, now her nephew.
WTH!? He was a freakin’ 7 year old boy! What kind of sicko out there would do something so horrible?
I’m so MAD and so SAD at the same time.
How could somebody do something as cruel as that!
Stay strong, Jennifer!
Horrible !
My heart bleed everytime I read this kind of tragedy.
How could someone be so coldblooded and heartless shooting an harmless,innocent boy .?
For Godsake, he is just 7 years old !
The killer should be slowly , painfully torture to death. dying thru painless electrocution is just too kind for that killer. and unfair to the Hudson family.
oh my gosh!
That is so sad.. I cannot even imagine what she’s going trough =[
My prayers are with her and her family..
May they all rest in peace
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I give my condolences and prayers to her and her family members. That is just too hard for her to bare. I hope she stands tall through this and find out who did this!
R.I.P
omg… deepest condolences to the family. no one should ever have to go through this..
All i can say is Im very sad about it.My prayers goes out to her.
So sad. Perhaps all our prayers will help her through this incredibly awful time.
Stay strong sweetie! we all support you in such sad times…All the prayers are going o you and yr fam!
A quick death is too good for the sob who did this to that baby, and his grandmother and uncle. The monster needs to be torn apart piece by piece, by the other prisoners.
I have a 7 year old son and this is just sickening to read. I just stood and looked at him sleeping and wondered how could anyone ever hurt such a little child. I agree with the death penalty in this case 100%. I can’t imagine how Jennifer Hudson is going to deal with this tragedy. I hope her fiance stands beside her through all of this.
Terrible to read of this senseless murder. My prayers to the family.
this makes me feel sick. this is so awful. one of the little boys i babysit just turned 8 and i can never imagine anyone ever doing something like this to him. all he wants to do is have fun and spend time with his family and learn things at school. what right did this sick son of a b!tch have to end this little boys life?!?!? what did this poor child do to anyone? looking at the picture of him–he was adorable and looks like such a sweet innocent little boy!! i seriously feel sick right now. this situation is beyond words. i cant even imagine what that family is going through right now. the hardest part is knowing the fear and terror this child must have felt in the moments before that triggar was pulled. i want to be sick just imagining it.
Very sad for it to end this way. :( I was hoping they would at least find her nephew alive and well.
I dunno but I’m curious where Julia was? How come if indeed her estranged husband did all this, he spared her? Was it just pure evil that he took out everyone she loved and kept her alive as the ultimate torture?
May you be strong, Jennifer. My heart and prayers go with you!
In this world that full of tragedy, Jennifer, stay strong!! You are a fighter, you can do that. We are with you.
That is terrible.My prayers go out to Jennifer and her family.That is really sad what happened to her mom,nephew and brother.
You can label it anything like “freedom” to posses weapons, but did guns do any good ‘defending’ the country against 9-11 airplanes? I have to say it—there is NO PLACE FOR CIVILIANS to own guns. USA is the ONLY civilized (now it’s questionable on a day like today) country which allows people to carry guns. Really I want to know what do these NRA people expect to do waiting for the nuclear bomb to drop on their head? Shoot their AKGs to the sky? Senseless. Clueless. Meaningless = GUNS.
damn how can someone just kill a little kid??
it ’s sad to see 2001-2008 as all that he gets to live for his life that is very short,
people in this world really have problems.
stay strong hundson family
This is so tragic about Jennifer’s mom, brother now her nephew. I feel so sorry for Jennifer to identify all three family members especially her little nephew. My prayers to Jennifer and her remaining family members during their time of grief.
First of all, I also offer my sincere condolences to Jennifer Hudson & her family that such a horrible tragedy happened to them; losing those we love os never easy. But there is a great difference between losing someone to illness or accident & murder or suicide…
But I find myself truly shocked at most of the responses I’ve read here & on other blogs… DON’T ANY OF YOU READ/WATCH THE NEWS!? Domestic violence happens far too often in this world every day. It hits ALL walks of life REGARDLESS of race, religion, nationality, gender & sexual preference, age, etc. - The stories I’ve read have been horrible, sickening… All because one person deems the other expendable for daring to be independent & leave their “owner”. In a lot of cases, the perpetrating kills their loved one (wife/lover), & then themselves.
In rarer cases, the abuser kills family members in order to have their “target” live the rest of their lives grieving the loss for the rest of their lives. Case in point: a husband, angered that his wife divorced him, took their 3 kids & shot them in front of her before taking his own life. When the bodies were found so was the note: “It’s her fault; SHE made me DO IT!”
Again, my sincere condolences to the Hudson family for a tragedy NO ONE should EVER have to go through.
That’s so Sad! It’s disgusting that someone would do this to a family! To Children! I hope whoever did this will be found and rot in jail for the rest of their no good life! Jennifer and her family don’t deserve this! She lost her mother, brother and cousin over some bad break up! I feel so sorry for Jennifer!
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