Julia Hudson, the older sister of Dreamgirls star Jennifer Hudson, has pleaded for the return of her missing son after two members of her family were gunned down at their Chicago home.
A tearful Julia Hudson faced the media at a Baptist church on Chicago’s South Side on Saturday and begged for her seven-year-old son, Julian King, to be reunited with her.
“Give me my baby back. That’s all I ask,” she said. “I know he’s out there. Put him on the side of the street. Just let him go.”
The sensitive youngster, who is affectionately known as “Juicebox” or “Dr. King,” has been missing since Friday, when his grandmother, Darnell Donerson, 57, and her son Jason Hudson, 29, were found shot to death inside their Englewood neighborhood.
Police issued an all points bulletin, or Amber Alert, for King, and said he might have been abducted by a suspect in the double homicide. The bulletin also said they were searching for a white Suburban Chevrolet truck that was missing and apparently belonged to Jason Hudson.
Authorities asked the public to be on the lookout for William Balfour, who according to his MySpace page is married to Julia Hudson and step-father to Julian King.
The couple had recently separated amid some acrimony because of a dispute over a car, neighbors and news reports said.
Balfour was taken into custody by police late on Friday, a news reports and his mother said. Chicago police declined to confirm those reports. A spokesman said investigators are questioning several people of interest.
On Saturday, Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis said that the department had called on the FBI to help with the hunt for the missing youngster in case he had been taken over state lines.
“We’re doing that as a precautionary measure,” Weis told CNN. “We’re pursuing this relentlessly.”
Balfour’s mother told reporters that her son was not involved in the slayings or the disappearance of King.
“My son had nothing to do with this — and I’m very upset with the police because they are refusing to let me see my son,” Michele Davis Balfour told reporters, the Chicago Sun-Times reported on Saturday.
“Whoever has Jennifer Hudson’s nephew or Julia Balfour’s son, I’m begging you, me and my family, are begging you to return that son,” she said.
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