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Post by anointedteacher on Oct 24, 2008 18:52:26 GMT -5
Jennifer Hudson's mother killed: reports
Louis CHICAGO (Reuters) –
The mother of Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Hudson was found shot to death in her Chicago home on Friday, media reported.
The entertainment website TMZ said Hudson's brother Jason also was found dead, citing a neighbor. A cousin who lived nearby discovered the bodies, TMZ said.
The Chicago Tribune, quoting police, said the killings may be linked to a domestic disturbance.
Police could not confirm the reports that Hudson's mother, Darnell Donnerson, and brother had been killed.
Hudson won an Academy Award for her role in "Dream Girls."
(Reporting by Michael Conlon; Editing by John O'Callaghan)
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Post by anointedteacher on Oct 25, 2008 9:44:45 GMT -5
Jennifer Hudson's nephew missing after slayingsBy Associated Press
2 hours, 48 minutes ago
A suspect in the deaths was in custody Friday night, but young Julian King had not been seen since the bodies of Darnell Donerson, 57, and Jason Hudson, 29, were found Friday afternoon.
A family member entering Donerson's South Side home Friday afternoon found the woman shot on the living room floor. Responding officers later found Hanson shot in the bedroom, police said.
At least one of the victims suffered defensive wounds, said authorities who described the shooting as domestic violence.
William Balfour, a man suspected in the deaths, was arrested Friday but had not been charged, law enforcement sources told the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times.
Police spokeswoman Monique Bond said investigators were talking to "a number of people in custody" but she declined to elaborate. An Amber Alert issued Friday said Balfour was a suspect in the double homicide.
Records from the Illinois Department of Corrections show Balfour, 27, is on parole and spent nearly seven years in prison for attempted murder, vehicular hijacking and possessing a stolen vehicle. Public records show one of Balfour's addresses as the home where Donerson and Jason Hudson were shot.
The Cook County medical examiner's office said autopsies for Donerson and Jason Hudson were pending.
Balfour's mother, Michelle, said her son had been married to Hudson's sister, Julia, for several years, but they were separated. She also said Donerson had ordered him to move out of the family's home last winter.
Jennifer Hudson's personal publicist, Lisa Kasteler, said the family wanted privacy.
The tragedy comes as Hudson, who grew up in Chicago, continues to reach new heights in her career. Her song "Spotlight" is No. 1 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop charts and her recently released, self-tiled debut album has been a top seller. She was featured in this year's blockbuster "Sex and the City" movie and is also starring in the hit film "The Secret Life of Bees."
She won an Academy Award for best supporting actress in 2007 for her role in "Dreamgirls." In an interview last year with Vogue, Hudson credited her mother with encouraging her to audition for "American Idol," which launched her career.
The singer, whose father died when she was a teenager, described herself as very close to her family. In a recent AP interview she said her family, which includes older siblings Julia and Jason, helped keep her grounded.
"My faith in God and my family, they're very realistic and very normal, they're not into the whole limelight kind of thing, so when I go home to Chicago that's just another place that's home," she said. "I stand in line with everybody else, or, when I go home to my mom I'm just Jennifer, (so she says), 'You get up and you take care of your own stuff.' And I love that; I don't like when people tell you everything you want to hear, I want to hear the truth, you know what I mean."
Hudson recently announced her engagement to David Otunga, best known for his stint on VH1's reality show "I Love New York."
Hudson's representatives would not disclose her whereabouts Friday. She had been scheduled to appear Monday in Los Angeles to collect an ensemble cast honor at the Hollywood Awards for "The Secret Life of Bees" with co-stars including Alicia Keys, Queen Latifah and Dakota Fanning.
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Post by anointedteacher on Oct 25, 2008 9:49:07 GMT -5
I pray they find little Julian King alive and well..... This is very sad... I am praying for the family...
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Post by stillfocused on Oct 26, 2008 19:05:16 GMT -5
My son send me a text with news and a picture of the subject along with a Amber alert
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Post by MinLisa on Oct 27, 2008 11:08:00 GMT -5
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Post by anointedteacher on Oct 27, 2008 12:58:21 GMT -5
This is horrible!!! Just horrible!!!  my heart is in pain .... I lossa brother a little over month age and felt so much pain and still crying over the loss.... so I can't imagine losing three close member of the family at the same tme. I can't help from crying for Jennifer and her sister Julie... |
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Post by MinLisa on Oct 27, 2008 13:52:32 GMT -5
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Post by kitty on Oct 27, 2008 16:27:52 GMT -5
That is just tragic!
Kitty
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Post by vin on Oct 27, 2008 16:52:44 GMT -5
CHICAGO – Chicago police say singer and actress Jennifer Hudson has identified the body of her 7-year-old nephew, who was found dead Monday morning in an SUV.
Julian King had been missing since Hudson's mother and brother were found shot to death in the home they shared Friday. Police spokeswoman Monique Bond says the boy also had been shot.
Julian had been the subject of a frantic search since the killings, which police have characterized as "domestic related."
Police say Hudson was among seven family members and close friends who identified the body from a video image at the Cook County Medical Examiner's office Monday.
No one has been charged in the slayings. Authorities have been questioning the estranged husband of Hudson's sister.
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