Jennifer Hudson’s Brother-In-Law William Balfour Has Been Arrested For The Family Murders

 

William Balfour has been arrested for the murders of Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother and nephew.

Chicago police arrested Balfour today for the Oct. 24 shooting deaths that ripped the Dreamgirls star’s family apart.

Chicago police detectives went to the Illinois’ Stateville Correctional Center, where Balfour has been detained since two days after the murders. The 27-year-old was transferred into police custody at 2:45 local time.

A police department spokesman told E! News:

“He is awaiting formal charges for three counts of murder.  There likely will be a press conference once there are formal charges against him.”

Balfour was deemed a “person of interest” in the case almost immediately after the murders transfixed the nation. But he had been jailed on an unrelated charges of parole violation stemming from a 1999 attempted-murder conviction.

At a hearing last month, the Illinois Prisoner Review Board decided to keep him locked up after hearing evidence that he appeared in places where drugs were sold and, according to his girlfriend, being in possession of a gun matching the description of the Hudson murder weapon.