Academy Award–winning singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, along with several family members, identified the body of yet another slain relative, her 7-year-old nephew, Julian King.
The overwhelming tragedy was the second time in three days that Hudson was forced to make a trip to the morgue.
The second grader had been missing all weekend after an unidentified assailant fatally shot Hudson’s mother Darnell, 57, and her brother Jason, 29, on Friday.
Police discovered the slain boy in an abandoned white Chevy Suburban on Chicago’s West Side according to the Chicago Tribune.
Julian was found slumped over in the back seat and shot in the head. Detectives to believe he had been shot in the vehicle. Police don’t know precisely when he was killed, and said they are waiting for more information from the medical examiner’s office reported the Tribune.
“I think they’re pretty optimistic,” Superintendent Weis said when asked whether authorities expect to solve the crime.
“You’ve got two crime scenes…I’m very confident that our forensic technicians will go through both areas with a fine-toothed comb, and I suspect that we’ll have some evidence that will link us to the killer.”
William Balfour, the estranged husband of Jennifer Hudson’s sister Julia, has been in police custody since Friday night as a “person of interest.” He has denied involvement in the crime but has since reportedly stopped responding to authorities. No charges have been filed.
A candlelight vigil took place Monday night drawing hundreds of mourners on the block where the shootings took place.
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