Morgan Freeman mourns loss of E'Dena Hines, his granddaughter
Morgan Freeman's step-granddaughter E'Dena Hines was stabbed to death. She was an actor and writer.
Morgan Freeman's step-granddaughter E'Dena Hines was stabbed to death. She was an actor and writer.
Police have arrested a 30-year-old man in connection with the fatal stabbing of actor聽Morgan Freeman's step-granddaughter on a Manhattan street.
Lamar Davenport, of New York City, was charged with second-degree murder on Monday, a day after 33-year-old Edena Hines was found lying on the street with multiple stab wounds to the chest.
Police say the Davenport was in a relationship with Hines. She was found in front of her apartment building on West 162nd Street and was pronounced dead at Harlem Hospital.
Freeman issued a statement saying that "The world will never know her artistry and talent, and how much she had to offer." Hines studied for three years at New York University鈥檚 graduate acting program, and taught underprivileged youth in Memphis. She's the granddaughter of Freeman's first wife,聽Jeanette Adair Bradshaw. Their marriage lasted from 1967 to 1979.
According to聽her website, Hines was an actress and writer.
In a recent blog she wrote: