Morgan Freeman's Step-Granddaughter Stabbed To Death By Her Boyfriend

The step-granddaughter of actor Morgan Freeman was stabbed to death on a street by her deranged boyfriend as he yelled "Get out devils!" in Washington Heights early Sunday, police sources and a witness said.

Police officers found E'Dena Hines, 33, lying in the middle of W. 162nd near St. Nicholas Ave. with several knife wounds to her chest around 3 a.m., according to authorities.

“Get out devils! I cast you out Devils in the name of Jesus Christ! I cast you out!" the 30-year-old man repeatedly said, according to George Hudacko, 65, who saw the attack and called 911.

“I watched someone get murdered, and there was nothing I could do,” Hudacko added.

Hines appeared to be topless, said another witness, Jovita Bedolla, 26, who saw the murder from her bathroom window.

The man, who is believed to be her current boyfriend, was taken into custody and the knife was recovered at the scene, authorities said.

Hines was rushed to Harlem Hospital Center, but she could not be saved, police said.

"The world will never know her artistry and talent, and how much she had to offer," Freeman said in a statement. "Her friends and family were fortunate enough to have known what she meant as a person. Her star will continue to shine bright in our hearts, thoughts and prayers. May she rest in peace."

The suspect had not been charged as of Sunday evening. He was undergoing a mental evaluation at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, the police source said.

It is unclear what triggered the attack.

“He was totally off the wrench,” said Patrick Curry, 27, who witnessed the stabbing from his bathroom on the third floor. “He had totally snapped. It was just really scary.”

Hines was an aspiring actress who moved back to New York in April after being cast in an indie film called “Landing Up,” according to posts on Facebook and her personal website.

“My dream has come true and it’s just beginning,” she wrote in a blog post on July 7. “Life can make you want to give up or walk away, sometimes it gives you the strength to appreciate when you do get your happy ending.”

Hines studied acting at New York University’s acclaimed graduate acting program and taught youths in need in Memphis.

On her website, she talked about her personality.

“Energetic. Loud. Animated,” she wrote on July 9. “That’s probably the first three words that pop up into people’s heads when they think about me.”

She was worried her outgoing personality was hurting her acting career.

“I thought I was the group cheerleader, giving them what they needed to keep going cause I was blessed with exuberant amounts of energy, but, I was more exhausted when it counted,” she wrote online. “While everyone else would be relaxing on breaks, I was entertaining or so I thought. I also became aware that my voice was always heard above others which meant they all knew about me, but I didn’t actually know a lot about them.”

In 2012, the 78-year-old Freeman and Hines denied they were dating and soon to be married.
“These stories about me and my grandfather are not only untrue, they are also hurtful to me and my family,” Hines said at the time.

She is the granddaughter of Freeman’s first wife, Jeannette Adair Bradshaw. The two --who were married from 1967 until 1979--adopted her mother. Freeman later married Myrna Colley-Lee in 1984, but the pair divorced in 2010.

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