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Hudson IDs Nephew: 'Yes, That's Him'

Singer returns to morgue days after losing mother, brother

By Sarah Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 28, 2008 8:04 AM CDT

(Newser) – Jennifer Hudson again found herself tasked with the unthinkable in Chicago's morgue yesterday, looking up at a video screen depicting the body of her 7-year-old nephew Julian King in the next room, the Chicago Tribune reports. "Yes, that's him," the actress said of the missing boy cops found slumped in the backseat of an SUV, with a gunshot to the head. Police are questioning Julian's mother's estranged husband, but he's not been charged.

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The Rev. Luther McDade joins two women as they pray for Darnell Donerson and Jason Hudson, the mother and brother of actress Jennifer Hudson, outside the Donerson home in Chicago yesterday. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson is shown at the premiere of "Sex and the City" at Radio City Music Hall in New York in May. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)

A photo from video shows the white SUV in which Julian King's body was found. The vehicle was being removed from the scene. (AP Photo/Courtesy WLS-TV in Chicago)

A photo released by the Chicago Police Department shows 7-year-old Julian King. King's body was found yesterday in an SUV on Chicago's West Side. (AP Photo/Chicago Police Department)

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The first thing I thought was, 'Lord, don't let the baby be in there.' - Lynette Loudon, who called 911 to report the discovery of a white SUV containing the body of Julian King

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Hudson IDs Nephew: 'Yes, That's Him'