In what is being considered by law enforcement sources a potential break in the case of murders of three family members of Oscar-winning actress and singer, Jennifer Hudson, the police have found a handgun on Wednesday which matches the caliber of weapon used.

Hudson’s 7-year-old nephew, who had been shot twice in the head, had been missing since Friday, when Hudson and Donerson, were found shot to death in the family’s Englewood home at 7019 S. Yale Ave.

The gun was being tested to compare with ballistics taken from the murder scenes; and police is expected to have some preliminary results. According to Nicholas Roti, deputy chief of patrol for the Harrison Area, a few other “small bits of evidence,” were also recovered next to the gun, which was snuggled in thick shrubs in a vacant lot in the 1400 block of South Kolin Avenue.

The discovery of the gun added another variable for detectives trying to piece together the crime that stretches from a dangerous South Side neighborhood to an equally troubled part of the West Side and has focused the national celebrity media on Chicago for nearly a week.

Though no one has been charged for the killings, the police have taken William Balfour, the estranged husband of Hudson’s sister, into custody as a prime suspect. Chicago Police Superintendent, Jody Weis, told the New York Daily: “It wasn’t a case of a stranger-type homicide.”

The police are clearly taking the discovery of the weapon seriously, but police sources cautioned against reading too much into the find before forensic testing was conducted.