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**ladyle** · 10-28-2008, 06:09 PM

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Autopsy: Gunshots killed Hudson's nephew

Julian King, the 7-year-old nephew of actress-singer Jennifer Hudson, died from multiple gunshot wounds and his death has been ruled a homicide, the Cook County medical examiner's office said this afternoon.

See the relationships of the Hudson family and where the events occurred here.
Officials declined to say where the boy suffered wounds or how long he had been dead, citing an ongoing Chicago police investigation. The announcement follows an autopsy on Julian's body, which was found in a sport-utility-vehicle parked on a street on the city's West Side on Monday.

Also today, the MySpace page of the sister of actress-singer Jennifer Hudson carried a statement -- one day after her 7-year-old son was found fatally shot on Chicago's West Side -- thanking supporters of her family as they cope with the tragedy.
Her son, Julian King, was found slain Monday afternoon, three days after her brother and mother were found shot to death in the family's home.

She writes: "Now because I chose to do what was natural to me and love someone, it cost me my beautiful family., my wonderful, beautiful, loving, supporting mother Darnell, my true blue baby brother Jason, I love you big baby ... and last but never least, my only son Julian, my innocent baby one that was sheltered from all the evil in the world because we loved him so much."

Police Supt. Jody Weis said today the investigation into the slayings of the boy and two other relatives of Hudson's was continuing and there were no new developments. Weis said no weapon has been recovered and police are not sure where Julian was slain.

Weis made his comments at an unrelated event for the City Club of Chicago.
Investigators' primary suspect remains the estranged husband of Hudson's sister.
A police source said the motive in the killings of Hudson's mother, brother and nephew could be related to ongoing disputes between the suspect and his estranged wife, Julia Hudson, and her family. One of those disputes was over unpaid car payments, sources said.

William Balfour, 27, remains the focus of the triple-homicide investigation. Hudson's mother and brother had thrown him out of their Englewood house in the past, sources said. Julia Hudson also told police that Balfour had threatened the family.
A source said Balfour told Julia Hudson he would kill her if he found out she had a boyfriend, despite the fact that he had other girlfriends.

Officers questioned Balfour on Friday night, but he stopped talking when police suggested he take a polygraph. Balfour has not been charged in the slayings.

He remains at Stateville Correctional Center, where officials transferred him Sunday morning, saying that because he was a suspect in the slayings, he violated conditions of parole for a 1999 conviction for attempted murder.

According to an Associated Press report, documents show Balfour was arrested for drug possession in June, but state officials didn't revoke his parole. The records also say he missed a meeting with his parole agent Friday, the day of the killings.
Police have not ruled out the possibility that more than one person was involved.
"It wasn't a case of a stranger-type homicide," Weis said Monday.

Police believe that Balfour went to the Hudson family home Friday and shot through the front door, striking Hudson's brother, Jason. Hudson's mother, Darnell Donerson, came into the living room, screaming, and Balfour shot her as well, sources said.
Shell casings were also found in the child's room, but there were no bullet holes or other signs of violence there. The nephew was missing.

The three-day search for the 2nd grader ended Monday when his body was found slumped in the back seat of an SUV parked on a West Side street.

Much of the account of what police believe happened that day came from an interview with a girlfriend of Balfour's, sources said.
The sources also said Balfour's girlfriend contradicted his alibi and told police that he was involved in the slayings.

In one dispute, sources said, Julia Hudson arrived Friday morning at Sunrise Bus Co. on payday and discovered her wages had been garnished because of unpaid car payments. Sources said Balfour had taken her car months earlier but promised to make the payments on the vehicle. After seeing her pay stub, Julia Hudson called Balfour to complain about the unpaid bills, sources said.

Source: Chicago Tribune