Politics | 12/02/2008 10:15 am
Jennifer Hudson's Brother-in-Law Arrested in Connection to Family's Murder

Jennifer Hudson can hopefully find some closure after the tragic murders of her mother, brother and seven-year-old nephew.
According to reports, police have arrested Hudson’s brother-in-law, William Balfour, 27, in connection with their murders. It’s been more than a month since the Oscar-winning actress’s mother, Darnell Hudson Donerson, and her older brother, Jason, were found fatally shot inside Hudson’s childhood Chicago home. Julian King was found three days later, shot dead inside an SUV near the crime scene. The murder weapon? Reportedly the same .45-caliber gun used to kill Hudson’s mother and brother.
The Associated Press reports that Balfour was transferred to a different prison after being served with a murder arrest warrant and is now awaiting formal charges. As of Monday night, he was not formally charged, the AP reports. Balfour was being held in prison on a suspected parole violation. He served seven years for attempted murder and a car-hijacking conviction in 1999.
Balfour, married to Hudson’s sister Julia, was taken into questioning for two straight days after the bodies were found on October 24 and was named a "person of interest" in the investigation. During the interrogation, Balfour reportedly refused to take a lie-detector test and was uncooperative with detectives.
Like any mother, Balfour’s mom defended her son when she told reporters last night that prosecutors have no case.
"If they found gun powder on his hands, you got a case; if they found a gun on him, he had a case; if they found a fingerprint on the truck that he did this, you got a case; but they don’t have nothing," Michelle Davis-Balfour said.























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