Jennifer Hudson’s Mother And Brother Killed
Published by Marcus Vanderberg on Friday, October 24, 2008 at 6:23 pm.
Jennifer Hudson’s mother and brother were found shot and killed inside her mother’s home this afternoon in Chicago according to WLS-TV.
A representative of the family’s church, Pleasant Gift Missionary Baptist, confirms that 57-year-old Darnell Hudson was one of the victims.
The second male victim is reportedly Hudson’s brother, Jason.
According to CBS 2 Chicago, police were searching for a man and 7-year-old boy. The man is known as William Balfour has braids in his hair, and could be driving a 1994 white Chevy with the license plate X584859, according to police. Balfour is married to Jennifer Hudson’s sister, Julia. Records show that Balfour has listed Hudson’s mother’s address as a place of residence within the last year and is currently on parole after serving jail time for attempted murder.
The boy, identified as Julian King, Hudson’s nephew, was wearing a tan jersey with the number 5 on it and tan slacks.
Update:
According to TMZ.com:
The suspect, William Balfour, has been taken into custody. Hudson’s nephew, 7-year-old Julian King is still missing, according to WFLD-Chicago. Balfour is refusing to cooperate with cops or supply info.
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I’am SO SORRY…….I FEEL THE PAIN OF THE FAMILY JUST THIS YEAR I LOST A SISTER THAT WAS SHOT IN HER FACE SEVERAL TIMES BY HER BOYFRIEND. ONLY GOD KNOWS WHY BUT I PRAY THAT JUSTICE IS SERVED AND THEY GET WHAT THEY DESERVED THIS IS HEART BREAKING IAM SO UPSET BUT PLEASE KEEP YOUR HEADS UP AND PRAY IT LOOKS HARD BUT YOU CAN ONLY TAKE IT ONE DAY AT A TIME…
LOVE YALL SO MUCH
\SINCERLY THE ROBERT FAMILY
My condolences goes out to the Hudson family.Your family are in my prayers.. I can honestly say that when I heard this about the Hudson family and there nephew tears came to my eyes as if I knew them on a personal level. You wonder what is going through people minds now days to do this kind of crime.You wonder how they could live with there self knowing what they done to this family. I hope they catch who done this. May God Bless
I sorry u lost your mother brother and your newphew. i know that it is very hard to lose some one you love. i will have you and your family in my prayers. keep your head up dont never look down. luv you
I know it feels to lose a brother to violence. My brother was shot and killed in my car when he was seventeen years old. He was with some family member when it happened. There were a lot of rumors surrounded the death. I will pray for you and your family. My advice to you is to ignore the negative words and rumors. Be there for your sister and heal. The only people that know what happened are the ones that were there. Stand on God’s word and it will suffice. It is alright to talk to God and question him, he alone can give you the answers you seek. Use your beautiful voice to heal yourself and others.
My condolences go out to the Hudson fmaily. May God give you all strength in your time of giref. Continue to belive and stand on God’s word. May God Bless
My heart and prayers go out to the entire Hudson family. It will take time to heal this wound but continue to lean and trust in God and he will see you through.
I’m sorry about your loss and would like to let you know you are in my family prayers. Know that god has blessed you to have the time you’ve had with your loved ones and for that you should be grateful. Know that even though their time was cut short by someone sick, they too enjoyed the time spent to grow with you and see you through your greatest endeavors. Continue to be strong and believe that God works in mysterious ways and things happen for reasons. Your mother, brother, and nephew will always be in your heart and that mothers love will always be with you spiritually. They were with you then, and they are with you now. May peace be with you and your loved ones.
Jennifer, my heart, my prayers and my thoughts go out to you daily. I can’t relate to your lost because I have never experiencd anything this tragic. Just know that you are loved and that they loved you very much. Be strong and I will continue to pray for you.
God bless the hudson family.
My heart and prayers go out to you and your family. May God be with you in this time of mourning. I pray that your faith in God be strengthened as well throughout these hellish times on earth. God Bless and keep ya head up
Sincerely,
Bonnie
Jennifer you are so truly and beautiful, continue to be as successful as you can be, may God be with you and take you through this horrific matter and remember now you have three angels that will never ever leave your side, I am praying for you
I SEND MY BLESSING TO JENNIFER HUDSON AND HER FAMILY…..IT MUST BE REALLY HARD TO GO THRU SUMTIN LIKE DAT…..I JUS LOVE JENNIFER AND I AM SO SORRY THIS TRAGEDY HAD TO HAPPEN TO HER…BUT BE STRONG HUN AND LIVE UR LIFE AS GOD AS PLANNED.GOD BLESS
THIS IS KECIA BOOKER FROM BROOKLYN NY AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEND MY CONDOLENCES TO THE HUDSON FAMILY JUST KEEP GOD BY YOUR SIDE I WILL KEEP YOU IN MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYS GOD HAVE HIS WAYS OF DOING THINGS FOR A REASON. YOU HAVE 3 ANGELS TO LOOK DOWN ON YOU AND PROTECT YOU IN YOUR LIFE GOD BLESS YOU AND STAY STRONG
To Jenifer and the Hudson family, I am praying for you. Trust in God and he will see you through this, t will not happen overnight but he will get you through. God Bless
hay jennifer i wat ima sy cant take none of your pain and heartbreak away but i hpe it can help a lil bit .I”m so sorry everything that happen to you and your family just keep faith and trust in the lord and dont neaver loose your faith i know its hard but he gone help you get through it me and my family got you and your family in our prayers from yo gurl nahnah
Jennifer,
You are a God-fearing woman so we understand that even during our times of sadness and homegoings, we know that they are in a better place for hell is here on Earth and we never know the day nor hour that we are goin to be called back to be with our Father, so let us not be discouraged but be prayerful and thankful for what the beautiful lives he’s blessed us with! God put in this position for a reason and I believe he put you in the music industry for something so much more profound than you could even imagine so you and your family have touched our lives. I love you and stay prayed up and cry! Mournig cleanses us of the hatred we have for the assailants who caused us so much pain-BE Blessed and know that you are a beacon of light of strength, love and hope and the greatest of these is LOVE=your fans love you the world loves you and most of all your MOM BROTHER AND NEPHEW LOVES YOU!!!
jen
The Lord only give us a season.no matter what the situation,just know it will
make us stroger
my heart and prayers go out to you jennifer and your sister during this time.May God comfort you and keep you in His perfect peace. Thank you Jennifer for being such an inspiration to me. I’m praying for you.
MAY THE BLOOD OF JESUS CONTINUE to bless you, and cover you in the Mighty Name of Jesus. We Love you all , the entire Hudson family and the kids father family, and the brothers kids, and family as well as the mother. Hebrews 10:35,36: Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which hasgreat reward. For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise. The promise is Joy, Peace and Lovesuffereing. In Jesus Name be Blessed. Amen. May the God of Peace who brought again from the dead our Lord may you perfect, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight br glorified in all things in Jesus Mighty Name I Pray Amen.
Jennifer, I know that this is a very trying time for you and your family but remember that God has timed everything in your life according to His perfect will. I,too, lost both of my support beams(my mother and my great-aunt) six weeks apart,as well as,my mother’s babysister who was terminally-iIl with colon cancer, thirteen months after them because she lost the will to go on living without them. I really believed if she knew the toll of ing her, too would later take on me, she would held on longer. I say that to ay this,a woman trying to describe to another what having labor pains feel like is parallel to trying to explain to some one what it feels like to lose your mother to death-NO TWO EXPERIENCES ARE ALIKE. Right now, you may not see the blessing of God placing your fiance in your life at this point in your life but know that timewill tell the story. The support that I received from my husband during the time of their deaths, I was able to see later on that his love sustained me thus far. It has barely been five months since I had to bury him, too. You know I have realized that my mother saw in him the love that I yearned before her untimely death, and she gave me her blessings to marry him before she expired. I rejoice for the sovereignty of God and for the mercifulness of God for placing such a loving man in my life. At this moment, I don’t think I ever will find a man to love me as much as my deceased husband did. I am so elated that my mother encouraged me to date my husband and I am also glad that I did. I would like to leave you with this poem that I wrote for my mother’s obitutary(MAY IT COMFORT YOU AS IT DID ME)——