Testimony in the trial of William Balfour, the man charged with murdering three of Jennifer Hudson’s family members resumed Tuesday with the award winning singer/actress listening to a police officer’s vivid description of finding her dead family members in their Chicago home.
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Today prosecutors shifted their focus, presenting crime scene evidence in the case against her former brother-in-law.
According to the Associated Press, Hudson hung her head and shut her eyes as Chicago police Sgt. David Dowling described finding her mother’s body sprawled in the living room with gunshot wounds through her back.
She stood still as Dowling described finding her brother dead in his bed of a gunshot wound to the head with his sheets were pulled up as if he had been sleeping.
Balfour was estranged from his wife, Hudson’s sister, at the time of the killings. He has pleaded not guilty to murdering Hudson’s mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew.
Balfour is on trial for shooting Hudson’s mother, Darnell Donerson; brother Jason Hudson; and her 7-year-old nephew, Julian King on Oct. 24, 2008.
As there were no surviving witnesses to the murders, prosecutors will introduce evidence in the next few days that includes cell phone records and security-camera footage that place Balfour in the area of the killings, since he denies he was there.
Another challenge will be tying Balfour to the alleged murder weapon, a silver and black .45-calibre handgun that sat Monday on a stack of papers at the prosecution table in plain view of jurors and Hudson.
Prosecutors believe Balfour went inside the three-story house around 9 a.m., shot Hudson’s mother in the living room, then shot her brother, Jason Hudson, twice in the head as he was lying in bed.
Investigators allege Balfour then drove off in Jason’s sport utility vehicle with 7-year-old Julian inside, and later shot the boy in the head as he hid behind the front seat.
If convicted of at least two of the murder counts, Balfour would face a mandatory life sentence.
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