The granddaughter of black actor Morgan Freeman was stabbed to death on a Manhattan sidewalk early Sunday during what law-enforcement sources and witnesses described as an \u201cexorcism\u201d at the hands of her ranting boyfriend.<\/p>\n
Freeman played the part of Nelson Mandela in the movie Invictus. It is a 2009 biographical sports drama film on how rugby was used to brainwash white voters to accept black rule.<\/p>\n
The black killer of Freeman’s granddaughter yelled: \u201cGet out, devils! I cast you out, devils! In the name of Jesus Christ, I cast you out!\u201d while he plunged a hunting knife into 33-year-old E\u2019Dena Hines\u2019 chest, according to George Hudacko, who witnessed the 3 a.m. attack from his apartment window in Washington Heights.<\/p>\n
Hines, an actress who had appeared on Broadway and on red carpets at Freeman\u2019s side, was stabbed 16 times, officials said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe girl was making a lot of noise, screaming,\u201d Hudacko said, adding. \u201cI called 911 \u2014 I was begging them to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hines \u2014 whose grandmother Jeanette Adair Bradshaw was Freeman\u2019s first wife \u2014 was attacked on West 162 Street near St. Nicholas Avenue, a few buildings from where she lived, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n
Her live-in boyfriend, Lamar Davenport, 30, was in the throes of a drug-induced psychosis when he came after her, police sources said.<\/p>\n
\u201cJesus Christ is born!\u201d he shouted maniacly over her body.<\/p>\n
A friend who\u2019d had dinner with Davenport and Hines just hours earlier described her as \u201cecstatic,\u201d the Daily Beast reported.<\/p>\n
By 3 a.m., Davenport was so crazed that he continued his attack even as Hines lay lifeless on the sidewalk, one police source said.<\/p>\n
When cops wrestled him off her, he \u201cwas still making a stabbing motion with his arm, but he had nothing in his fist \u2014 the knife was jutting out of her chest,\u201d the police source said.<\/p>\n
Davenport \u2014 an actor and rapper wannabe whose nickname is \u201cLyric\u201d \u2014 abuses cocaine, pot and booze, and has two young children, according to law-enforcement sources. Hines was not their mother<\/p>\n
Davenport was taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital for a psychological evaluation, sources said. Davenport has been charged with murder.<\/p>\n
Freeman, 78, issued a statement soon after the attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe world will never know her artistry and talent and how much she had to offer,\u201d the Oscar winner said. \u201cHer star will continue to shine bright in our hearts, thoughts and prayers. May she rest in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hines was Freeman\u2019s granddaughter because her mother had been adopted by the star.<\/p>\n
He was so close to Hines that in 2012, he had to squash reports that they were lovers.<\/p>\n
Source: NYP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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