Jennifer Hudson Arrives at Medical Examiner’s Office
[UPDATED Oct. 27, 2008 7:20 pm]
According to TMZ.com, a distraught Jennifer Hudson arrived at the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office moments ago to identify the body of her nephew, Julian King, 7.
Around 4 p.m. Eastern Standard time, two black SUVs believed to be carrying Hudson family members pulled out of the basement garage of the Trump Tower in downtown Chicago. An unmarked police squad car left shortly after that, followed by a crowd of about a dozen people who left through the luxury hotel’s lobby and declined comment.
Soon after, the SUVs arrived at the offices of the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The vehicles left the scene about 4:54 p.m. EST. (Source)
Chicago police brought Julian’s body to the medical examiner’s office shortly after noon today and Hudson and other family members arrived about three hours later, said office spokesman Sean Howard.
When the group entered a viewing room at the office Hudson held her head down, as if praying, he said. The family then identified Julian via a video screen mounted on a wall that showed his face. The family chose the video screen option rather than looking directly at the body, Howard said.
The family was “obviously distraught,” but Howard said Hudson “remained strong for her family. It was very clear she was the leader.
“She held hands with her family. It was obviously a very emotional moment.”
When they saw the boy’s face on the screen, Hudson told investigators, “Yes, that is him,” Howard said.
Sources say earlier today police told Hudson and her family that the body of the boy found in the back of a truck on Chicago’s West Side was Julian.
Photo: TMZ.com
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my heart is hurting right now …i can’t imagine
omg…*praying fervently*
Please Jesus help this family….
Lord please watch over this family and help them get thru this.
That’s awful that they would take a picture of her like that… the woman is grieving for God’s sake. I just ‘knew’ no one would be that low down, to kill a little boy. I thought for sure they would find him alive…
@MZN
That isn’t a recent pic of her.
RUDE !
Can she go see the body in peace please ?
@MZN Quote: I just ‘knew’ no one would be that low down, to kill a little boy. I thought for sure they would find him alive…
I know, I know. That’s what I was hoping and praying.
It had to have been someone he could identify.. that’s the only justification I can make. Whether it was the husband or even an associate of the uncle. And.. not trying to be funny.. if it WAS William and the truck got there AFTER Friday… how do we know his mama didn’t drive it there?? She’s sure defending the hell out of him. She might be the one updating his myspace page (where the current mood is forgotten… hmmph)There are mothers that would go to that extent to protect their children. Not me.. I’d kick your black azz and turn your stupid azz in with THE quickness.
Lord, my heart aches for this family and the many families like theirs who have to go through tragedies like this. This world needs a healing right now!!!!!
it has been confirmed that is Julian is the body found by Chicago PD. I am devastated and heartbroken for the family. This feels so personal for me as a parent. It is best that Balfour is already in police custody because if I was Julia, I would not know what to do. let’s all pray his soul is at peace and that God allowed him to go quickly.
CAN SHE HAVE SOME PEACE AND SERENITY?
PAPARAZZI DIDN’T DO THIS TYPE OF STUFF BACK IN THE DAY, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF killing Lady Di
This is wrong for me to say and I have not commented anything badly about this, only prayers and condolences. I prayed and prayed for this little boy to be ok. My heart knew ,too much time went by. Ppl like reward money. I knew this baby was not alive. I too beleive he was killed because he was old enough to identify who ever did this. This is my opinion and I am entitled. I think William is connected to this, whether he pulled the trigger or not.
Some comments mentioned the use of myspace. I can’t believe that I would have much alone time for anything but self medicating. There is no way my family and friends are not going to be with me(that I would take time to chat/post online, at this curcial time in my life. I know everyone is different but sometimes it’s the little things that we do or don’t do that make “us suspects”. I could not have held a press converence asking for the return of my child without more emotion than she had. I would not have been able to get through one minute of it.
The good Lord doesn’t make mistakes
I’m officially THRU with this… Too MUCH Too SOON
(TOO TRAGIC-n-NUMBING!!!!!)
The truth will come out and the culprits will be caught…
This Kind-of-EVIL will not & cannot go UN-PUNISHED !!!
My thoughts are strictly with the Mental-Welfare of J-Hud and HOPING that this Young, Beautiful & Successfully-Gifted Woman can still achieve her dreams and success in life… AND Some How Truly ENJOY her Life from here on out!!!
I was trying to keep from responding to these J Hud posts, because it is soooooooo heartbreaking. I’m very sensitive and am trying not to get emotional over something that has nothing to do with me. I’m just keeping their family in my prayers. I’m sure this has to be the hardest thing to do, identify a dead child.
Let me go, I’m tearing up.
The police/FBI would want Julia to open her Myspace or they are doing it for her. They have their eye on every message on there, looking for any sign of someone who slips up as knowing too much or someone may use it to give info about the case. They need all lines of contact to be open.
I can’t comment on how she is grieving b/c I only know me. I know how I handle things but I am considered sensitive. She may have been crying the whole time and was running dry for a bit, it happens.
This baby so so much before Jesus embraced him into his arms.
I pray for the Hudson family and pray that they find the murderer that took an inocent life.
I really do hate that this happened. My prayers and thoughts are with them.
This just hurts my heart to hear to the point I don’t want to hear it no more. Sad to say that on my mind I think…naw, I won’t say it here…but I watch too much Snapped to not think what I’m thinking.
I feel so bad for this family right now. My prayers go out to them.
i hoped i would be wrong when i was sitting in my car during lunch reading. ryan cameron spoke about this and my heart dropped.
i cant begin to fathom what jennifer hudson or the rest of her family’s going thru, but definitely she and her sister. i can’t imagine this at all. they’re burying three members of their family. who shoots a kid in the head; a selfless, innocent kid? wtf? wtf is going on in your small world that would make you resort to this???
lord have mercy on the cold blooded killer’s soul.
for a quick second, i wondered if it was jennifer’s ex she dated pre-oscar, but his name hasn’t come up at all so apparently he has nothing to do with this. i really am baffled by this….the damn kid man….r u kidding me with this
My heart is crying for the Hudson family…We should all pray for them and ask God to cradle them in his arms…I’m speechless…No parent or child should have to live through something as horrific as this…God Bless the Hudson family!
Just awful!! Who in their right mind would do such a horrible thing?? She is going to need our prayers not just now, but thru the holidays and her upcoming wedding. SMH….
A child..a child,barely lived his life.
I pray for her family and anybody who dealing with any kind of trauma of losing a loved one through gun violence.I can’t wrap my head around it.
For Julian…
Fly
By Celine Dion
Fly, fly little wing
Fly beyond imagining
The softest cloud, the whitest dove
Upon the wind of heaven’s love
Past the planets and the stars
Leave this lonely world of ours
Escape the sorrow and the pain
And fly again
Fly, fly precious one
Your endless Journey has begun
Take your gentle happiness
Far too beautiful for this
Cross over to the other shore
There is peace all one word
But hold this mem’ry bittersweet
Until we meet.
Fly, fly do not fear
Don’t waste a breath, don’t shed a tear
Your heart is pure, your soul is free
Be on your way, don’t wait for me
Above the universe you’ll climb
On beyond the hands of time
The moon will rise, the sun will set
But I won’t forget
Fly, fly little wing
Fly, where only angels sing
Fly away, the time is right
Go now, find the light.
Thanks for the song Mika79. That was beautiful that you posted it. I’ll have to find that one.
Very, Very Sad,
I thought about all weekend, and last nite Unimaginable pain.