Morgan Freeman’s granddaughter was killed with 16 stab wounds in the midst of a cruel religious ritual – LaCapital.com.ar

A man in his 30s, apparently the boyfriend of the young Edena Hines, 33, was arrested and is being subjected to psychological tests at a hospital in Washington.

Actor Morgan Freeman expressed in Facebook its enormous grief over the death of his granddaughter Edena Hines, who was stabbed, and thanked the support given to his family.

Hines, 33, was found Sunday morning in front of his house in the neighborhood of Washington Heights, in East New York, with puncture wounds, he reported the magazine “People” based on sources police. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital.

A man in his 30s, apparently the boyfriend of the girl, was arrested and is undergoing psychological tests at a hospital, police said. Witnesses saw him kneeling before her and shout religious appeals, the tabloid “New York Daily News” reported.

According to police sources assured to TMZ.com, Davenport shouted religious phrases while the crime occurred. He is now hospitalized and should be subjected to a psychiatric evaluation. “Go away demons, in the name of Jesus Christ cast out,” say the neighbors have heard that testify to justice.

The news site says E’Dena Hines was found lying in the street with multiple injuries cutting in the torso. He was immediately rushed to a hospital where it was determined that she was dead. Her boyfriend was arrested at the scene and transported to a nearby hospital.

The attack was seen by a resident of Washington Heights in New York, who saw the scene from his window called 911. According to George Hudacko, the complainant, Davenport began to knife it while shouting: “Out, demons in the name of Jesus, I command you!”. The information was confirmed by the US newspaper The New York Daily News.

Research Sources said the murderer of political granddaughter Freeman was separated from the body while reciting biblical passages E’Dena at once I continued attacking his lifeless body. In total, 16 stab wounds were recorded.

Davenport, who has a history of drug abuse, was taken to a psychiatric hospital by police before being questioned by investigators.

Freeman , 78, described as “tragic and senseless” death of her granddaughter in the social network. “The world does not know his talent and everything he had to give,” he said in a separate statement the actor, who won an Oscar for “Million Dollar Baby” and starred as Nelson Mandela in “Invictus.” “Your star will shine in our hearts.”

Hines was also an actress and worked in New York. She was the granddaughter of the first wife of Freeman, Jeanette Adair Bradshaw, with whom he was married until 1979.

According to his website on the Internet, she had studied dramatic three years art at New York University. Among other works, he had a small role in the new film by Freeman, “May Flights up” which

arrived in theaters in May.

However, finding few opportunities to show his talent in New York, he wrote on his website, he went to his hometown Memphis (in the state of Tennessee), to teach disadvantaged youth, from where he later returned to New York.