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E'Dena Hines, 33, was found fatally stabbed early on Sunday
in a street near her apartment in the city's Washington Heights
neighborhood, according to the New York Police Department.
She had suffered multiple stab wounds to the torso and was
pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.
Lamar Davenport, 30, was taken into custody and transferred to a
hospital for mental evaluation, police said.
Davenport had been seen by witnesses attacking Hines, yelling
"Get out, devils. I cast you out, devils," according to reports
in the Daily News and New York Post.
He was charged early on Monday with second-degree murder, police
said.
He remained hospitalized under evaluation, police said.
Hines and Davenport lived together at 43 West 162nd Street,
police said.
Hines studied acting at New York University and was an actor,
writer and acting instructor, according to her website.
Freeman, 78, has appeared in more than 100 films, among them "Invictus,"
"The Shawshank Redemption" and "Driving Miss Daisy." He won an
Oscar in 2005 for his supporting role in "Million Dollar Baby."
“I want to acknowledge the tremendous outpouring of love and
support my family has received regarding the tragic and
senseless passing of my granddaughter Edena Hines,” Freeman said
in a posting on his Facebook page. “Thank you from the bottom of
my heart.”
Hines was Freeman's step-granddaughter but he never referred to
her as that, Freeman publicist Stan Rosenfield said. She was the
granddaughter of his first wife Jeanette Adair Bradshaw, who was
divorced from Freeman in 1979.
(Editing by Lisa Lambert)
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