Lamar Davenport, 30, allegedly killed E’Dena Hines, 33, near her home in Washington Heights on Sunday morning.George Hudacko, 65, who saw the 3am attack from his window and called 911 said Davenport was stabbing her and screaming: ‘Get out, devils. In the name of Jesus Christ, I cast you out’.
Davenport, an aspiring actor with a history of drug abuse and a criminal record, was said to be reciting bible verses before being dragged from her body, which had 16 stab wounds.
He has been taken to the New York’s Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center to undergo psychological testing before being questioned by police.
Miss Hines,
who is the granddaughter of Morgan Freeman’s first wife Jeanette Adair
Bradshaw, was a regular on the red carpet with her grandfather and also
appeared in a number of movies herself.
The heartbroken star, 78, said last night: ‘The world will never know her artistry in talent. Her star will continue to shine bright in our hearts, thoughts and prayers. May she rest in peace.’He added: ‘I want to acknowledge the tremendous outpouring of love and support my family has received regarding the tragic and senseless passing of my granddaughter E’Dena Hines. Thank you from the bottom of my heart’.
Witness
Brydon Tarafa, 28, told Dailymail.com that he was in his apartment when
he heard a man maniacally shouting ‘Jesus Christ is born’, shortly
after a woman screamed.
According to Davenport’s Facebook, he used to work for an Auto Parts shop and studied English Literature at New York University.
He was trying to become a rapper, performing under the nickname Lyric.
One witness to the murder described the demented scene which unfolded around 3am.
‘Get
out, devils! I cast you out, devils! In the name of Jesus Christ, I
cast you out!,’ the boyfriend screamed, said George Hudacko, 65, who saw
the attack from his window in Washington Heights and called 911.
Witnesses told The New York Post that
the man continued to stab Hines’ lifeless body until police arrested
him. When officers arrived he was reportedly still making the stabbing
motion while the knife was stuck in her chest – and he didn’t have
anything in his fist.
A law enforcement source also told the newspaper he may have been high on cocaine at the time.
They added that he has six past arrests for crimes including marijuana possession and petit larceny, and has two children.
Ray
Roasrio, who claims to be Davenport’s best friend, says he went out for
dinner with the couple and some friends late on Saturday night, and it
was the happiest he had seen Hines for a long time.
He told The Daily Beast: ‘I’m still trying to come to grips with what happened. I’m caught between the hate I have for him, my love for him being my brother, and my heart breaking for her.’
Rosario added the pair were ‘ecstatic’ just hours before the brutal death.
Tarafa
said he didn’t think much of the screaming at first because there’s a
church across the street and ‘sometimes there’s people yelling and kids
running around’.
He soon realized that it was too late for kids to be outside playing, so he ran to his window to see what was happening.
‘I go to my window and I see some people standing in the street watching something. And right then two police cars come in and I notice there’s someone over here right in front of my doorway, and the guy gets off of the girl, and the police go and put him in handcuffs,’ he said.
Tarafa,
who lived in the building above where the incident occurred, said that
he had ‘never seen that kind of violence happen so close to home’ and
that it was ‘very scary’, and that he’s ‘definitely reconsidering’ his
safety in the neighborhood.
He didn’t know Hines, but said that he wished he could have done something to save her life.
‘Maybe if I had gone to the window sooner and thought it was more of an emergency situation sooner, then maybe I could have called and the police could have gotten here faster,’ Tarafa said.
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