According to online reports, the FBI is close to identifying the body of the child found in a white SUV registered to the slain brother of actress Jennifer Hudson.
The body has arrived at the medical examiner’s office and officials are awaiting the arrival of the Hudson family to make a positive ID.
According to Chicago news reports, Jennifer Hudson is said to be “devastated”. Hudson had offered a $100,000 reward for the safe return of her nephew, Julian King, who went missing the same day Hudson’s mother and brother were found shot to death in their home on Friday.
A press conference is expected after identification has been made.
The body was found in the back seat of a white Chevrolet Suburban that police were looking for in their search for the missing 7-year-old.
Residents in the neighborhood where the truck was found question why police didn’t find the truck sooner.
Neighbors disputed how long it had been there. A resident of the block, LaShaun Bouie, 36, said it must have appeared after 3 a.m. Monday morning. Rasheem Jackson, 21, who lives a block away, thinks he remembers seeing it as early as Saturday. Police received a call for a suspicious car at 7 a.m.
If the boy is identified as Julian King, it will confirm detectives’ worst fears because a law enforcement source said bullet casings were found in the boy’s room on Friday. But the source said they had not found other evidence of violence in the room.
As the car was processed by evidence technicians and workers at the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office sought to identify the body, Hudson’s family members and supporters assumed this was the third member of her family killed since Friday.
“It’s shocking. It’s unreal. We had been praying that it would not come to this,” said Rev. Krista Alston, a cousin of Hudson and a minister at the Pleasant Gift Baptist Church in Chicago. “We know it’s a reality now, but it’s still shocking.” (Source)
What could have been this serious? Im just so outdone.
That car was planted there.
What took the police so damn long to locate the suv, this soooo sad…
Who ever did needs to be tortured seriously. I have no sympathy for anyone that has the ability to hurt kids. They have no right to live and in this world. I don’t want to hear the god will take care of it speech.
I find it awfully fu*ked up that the police didn’t travel that street at least once between today and Friday and not think to run the tag of that Suburban.
Somebody needs to start lifting fingerprints off of air in that truck, because folks don’t know WHEN the truck was left on the street. Sunrise to sunset has came and went in three days and you mean to tell me NOBODY noticed that truck which most likely has been all over the news like the OJ Simpson and Al chase was during his run-in with the law. I hope it’s been there since dude got arrested.
Don’t get me started all over again.
poor baby… why would anyone torture a baby? that’s all he was… a baby… smh
i hope a LOT more details are released during the press conference…
This is the most publicity for a black kid i have ever seen on any news networks EVER!
If the police missed it, then the neighbors should have saw it, I am sure they have been watching the news. I guess the question is how long had it been there.
Sad for the family sad for the friends, but life is over and it will not start again…………………….
i can’t keep commenting on this. i just hope they find the CORRECT person that did this and the family can bury their loved ones in peace.
@ DMNB
I agree. Also if the truck was sitting there this whole weekend then that block should held accountable bc there is no way in hell you ain’t gonna notice that truck. Especially if this is all we’ve been seeing and hearing on tv this weekend.
I still believe that the truck was planted there.
Peopel keep debating over the details, i understand finding out who the murder is but seriously le tthem all R.i.P they are DEAD DEAD DEAD murdered but they will not come back ever debating about peoples myspaces and wigs and TVs and Cars its really irellevant and pointless not to mention semi- rude
Its entirely possible that the car was sitting there since friday night and wasn’t noticed even with the description and tag number of the vehicle circulated around the world. Does anyone know if the police searched that area specifically, I doubt it since it’s not within a certain radius of the crime scene. As for the neighbors not noticing the car, perhaps the car just didn’t seem that out of place and it finally clicked for the person who reported it.
I hope the killer(s) are found and arrested, assuming that its not William Balfour.
news says Hudson family in route to medical examiner’s office!
@karaz: i agree…folks keep talking about holding neighbors accountable, what are they accountable for/to? i have an aunt who rarely watch tv or listen to the radio and i wouldn’t be surprised if she doesn’t know about any of this…it’s possible the area was searched b4 the car was parked there…if the area wasn’t searched it would frustrate me to no end since it wasn’t far from where they picked up william…
@karaz… IT’S not possible (in this situation)
A White Suburban ISN’T a common automobile in Chicago (South-Side in particular) and I’m Sorry BUT Nobody IS trying to protect a Child-Killer here in The Chi (Real Talk)
i concur…
“I’m Sorry BUT Nobody IS trying to protect a Child-Killer here in The Chi (Real Talk)”
i don’t think white surburbans are uncommon in any part city though…
I’m sure “devastated” is an understatement.
Eyewitness statements say that the SUV was NOT there before last night. It just showed up between last night and this morning. The man who found it when he went for a walk this morning and reported it said he walks there every day and didn’t see it until now. So somebody placed it there. Which means the person responsible for all this is still out there. They need to go over that vehicle with a fine toothed comb in order to get to the bottom of this heinous act. I’m still so saddened by it all
Whoever is responsible for the mess needs to meet hell real quick. I dont know what that family had going on, but to drag that innocent child into it was terrible.
@blogger
White Explorers (sp?) are very popular throughout the South-side… Not Big-Azz White Suburbans
THAT car would’ve stuck-out LIKE a sore-thumb…
TRUST that car wasn’t parked there 3 WHOLE DAYS !!!
Elove, it is entirely possible, probable even, that the vehicle has been sitting there since friday. Just because a particular make and model isn’t popular doesn’t mean as soon as one is parked on the block anyone would notice it, even when its being looked for. The car was found on the west side of chicago, not on the south side.
Do you remember the cars parked on your block on friday? Or even this morning? The only thing I notice is one or two of my neighbor’s cars and if its a different car, the most I remember is that its different, nothing much more than that.
It’s unfortunate, but sometimes people miss things, even a man on a daily walk.
@KaraZ… I SEE your point & I Agree up to 75%
@mspeng
The problem with eye witnesses, is that they’re human, and making mistakes or forgetting is part of human nature. How many times have you misplaced your keys and you swore up and down that you left them on the table, but then you find them in the drawer and nobody had the opportunity to move them?
@e-love
Go find your e-honey and flirt shamelessly.
You didn’t even have to give me that much