Jennifer Hudson’s Mother and Brother Found Dead Shot to Death

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by Lamar Tyler | on October 24th, 2008 | 6 comments

Jennifer Hudson and her mother Darnell

The mother and brother of pop star Jennifer Hudson have been found dead, shot to death on the south side of Chicago in their home. There’s also an Amber Alert that has been issued for her 7 year old nephew who police believe may have been taken from the home. NBC in Chicago is reporting it may have been the result of a domestic dispute.

Click here for local NBC coverage with pictures of the home

Click here for local Fox coverage with video from the scene

CNN Report on the tragedy

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Lamar and Ronnie Tyler are the creators of the award-winning blog BlackandMarriedWithKids.com . They also are behind the Amazon.com bestselling DVDs Happily Ever After: A Positive Image of Black Marriage, You Saved Me and Men Ain’t Boys that explores manhood in the African American community. The Tylers are also the proud parents of four children.

Anna

This is so sad. Jennifer has come along way. She is in the new issue of S2S taking about how close her family is. My heart just fell when I heard this. What makes it more sad is that it was a domestic disbute. Not sure if it was over money or the 7 yr. old that was in the home at the time and is missing. Money and fame never phased Jennifer, she has always been the girl next door type of woman to me. Jennifer just recently annouced her engagement to Puck. My prayers to her and her family.
http://www.hiphossip.com kemi at HipHossip Canada

A tragedy unraveling something disturbing that may be nothing more than a fight over a CAR! Please see the latest at HipHossip. Julia Hudson the mom of Julian King’s are both missing. I hope they are not dead! I just did a live feed into Radio Nigeria back home from Toronto. The whole world is watching. Please see the latest clues at my site and the MySpace picture that’s unraveling this mystery! Rest In Peace to the dead. I hope Jennifer survives this. We will be praying for her. Her sister, nephew missing and her mom and brother dead! This is too much for me. The holidays are coming. I can’t take it anymore.

Kemi Omololu-Olunloyo
Chief Foreign Correspondent
Radio Nigeria International
Managing Editor HipHossip Canada

kemi at HipHossip Canadas last blog post..ARREST UPDATE: FIRST IN CANADA–BREAKING HORRIBLE NEWS: ACTRESS/SINGER JENNIFER HUDSON’S MOM AND BROTHER JASON SHOT TO DEATH IN THEIR CHICAGO HOME!
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Hello there!

This is just so very sad.

I hope that it is also a wake up call to black people to STOP coddling mentally ill relatives and shrugging off their behavior and threats with “he’s trippin” and “she’s trippin”.

How many black folks will NOT even use the word “mentally ill” to describe the dangerous persons in their own families??

Let this be a wake up call to stop mimimizing this pathology in our own families.

I pray for the comfort and healing of this family.

Peace, blessings and DUNAMIS!
Lisa
Misbeehavin

This is sad on so many levels. I’m hearing reports now that they may have found the nephew’s body in a car some where in Chicago. This is just horrible.
Marcus

Yeah, I’m hearing about the little boy may be dead now as well. When will this stop. When will we win this war against evil? When will we stop doing this to each other? This is sad, simply sad. Especially black men, we are the protectors of our family, of our children, why would someone do something so cowardly. This was pure evil.
http://blogitteems.blogspot.com Teems

R.I.P. I know how it is to loose your family. My Mom and Brother passed near the same time. I can imagine the feeling. Losing even one person is hard to bare…especially so publicly. My heart goes out.

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