US Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson has testified in the trial in Chicago of the man accused of shooting three members of her family in 2008.
William Balfour aged 30, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder.
He has pleaded not guilty.
She never liked her brother-in-law, she said, and urged her sister repeatedly not to marry him.
“None of us wanted her to marry him,” she said, her voice cracking with emotion.
“We did not like how he treated her.”
The prosecution claims Balfour flew into a rage when he saw a gift of balloons left outside the family home.
Assuming they were a gift from another man to his estranged wife, Jennifer’s sister Julia, he entered the house and shot their mother dead, before opening fire on their brother.
Darnell Donerson, 57, and Jason Hudson, 29, were found shot dead in their Chicago home on 24 October. The body of seven-year-old Julian King was found days later.
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