Jennifer Hudson's estranged brother-in-law has just gone from person of interest to prime suspect in the slayings of her mother, brother and nephew.
Chicago police today arrested William Balfour for the three shooting deaths that ripped the Dreamgirls star's family.
Balfour, 27, has been held at Illinois' Stateville Correctional Center since Oct. 26 on charges of parole violation stemming from a 1999 conviction on attempted murder.
At a parole hearing last month, the Illinois Prisoner Review Board ruled there was reason to believe he had violated his parole for transgressions unrelated to the Hudson killings, including appearing in places where drugs were sold and, according to his girlfriend, being in possession of a gun that matched the description of the Hudson murder weapon.
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