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Jennifer Hudson Family Slaying

From Chicagoist.com:

Exactly one year ago today, the bodies of Jennifer Hudson’s mother, Darnell Hudson Donerson, 57, and her brother, Jason Hudson, 29, were discovered inside their home on the South Side. Hudson’s 7-year-old nephew, Julian King, was found a few days after in a car on the West Side 10 miles away from his home. All three victims had been shot to death. William Balfour, the estranged husband of Jennifer Hudson’s sister, Julia, was charged for the killings with first-degree murder, allegedly killing the three family members because he was upset that Julia was dating someone else. Balfour pleaded not guilty and is still in jail.

Although Hudson has repeatedly declined interview requests to talk about the killings, she has returned to Chicago since last October, performing her song “Spotlight” on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” last month. In just a few weeks, Hudson will visit Chicago again to film an ABC prime-time special titled “Jennifer Hudson: I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” which is scheduled to air in December, and will show Hudson’s old neighborhood and the church where she started singing.

Hudson is also busy focusing on her new son, David, named for her fiancé Daniel David Otunga. In a recent interview, Hudson told reporters that she can’t wait to see “who he becomes, who he takes after, what he decides to do, [and] if he’ll sing.”

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DaintyJen/ DaintyJen

    no dont ever look back at chicago…f chicago

    this city is poison

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Shamel_/ Shamel_

    @ DaintyJen, it’s that bad luv??? I have close family friends that feel the same way! Sad! I am from Michigan and most of my family and close friends back in Detroit feel the same way about it. I know this had to be hard for J-Hud. I’m so happy for her and wish her nothing but the best.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DaintyJen/ DaintyJen

    yes it is…I stayed in LA, in Detroit, the Bronx….I hate Chicago out of all of them. Everybody says hate is everywhere but I constantly say theres something extra about Chicago nobody can quite put their finger on. Nice scenery but that doesn’t mean a thing with all the ugliness that blocks it

    theres a reason why our artists dont show us love.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Shamel_/ Shamel_

    WOW!!! I “felt” the conviction when you spoke. You are so intelligent and MATURE for your age. I read a lot of your posts and just know REGARDLESS of your zip code God has big things in store for you :) . It was rough back home (Michigan) for me. I have a son and did not want to raise him there so when I graduated from college in 2003 I packed my bags and “deuces”…never looked back! Sad thing is if I can get my mother down here (she is the backbone of the family) I probably wouldn’t go back. My siblings are there but if my mom moved they would too (lol).

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SexyMoneyMaker/ SexyMoneyMaker

    I cant imagine how that will be for her going back might make the horrible ordeal just as vivid as when it first happened, hope she can handle it and best wishes on starting her own family.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BlackMiss62/ BlackMiss62

    I’m just waiting to see when Jen and him gon’ finally do what they originally started out to do…get MARRIED! What is UP with all these women settling for Baby Momma status (under the fake guise of WIFE-To-BE) and not actual WIFE status?!? I am SO sick and tired of these females and their LAME azzed excuses as to WHY they can lay and make a baby or two…sometimes 3, 4 and 5 of em…but not in ANY of that time, can they take 10 minutes out of their *busy* schedule…and get MARRIED! There simply isn’t any excuse to teaching your children the value and decency in marital commitment!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BlackMiss62/ BlackMiss62

    Okay, not to sound ‘rude’ and unfeeling or anything but…I can’t see ANY value in the buying of a cute teddy bear or other cartoon/tv character and leaving it outside in show of ‘grief.’ It’s going to get dirty and probably wet and soggy. Wouldn’t that toy be best and better served delivered to a woman/child/children staying at a domestic violence/abuse center who could use something personal, warm & cuddly…to hug?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DaintyJen/ DaintyJen

    umm the VALUE of the bear doesn’t mean a thing to what they/people try to show when something like this happens. its a gift so those that give it have the right to choose what they want to do with it. 9 times out of 10 the people in those centers have toys or will receive 1 soon or later, but I think thats the least of their worries. As far as marriage u can show your children to have value, married or unmarried-rich or poor, people aren’t doing it regardless. at least she can do what the majority can’t do these days, which is support her children without the use of mostly the taxpayers money, and all these other aids that are meant to be TEMPORARY.

    but thanku @ Shamel_…and I feel u just keep your head up!

    JHUD come of us still love u, not everybody in Chicago wishes our artists to fail in life

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/touch4real1/ touch4real1

    no body will take your joy away from you, you the best ok

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