An actress related by marriage to Morgan Freeman died on Sunday after she was found with multiple stab wounds in the street outside her Washington Heights apartment, the police said. 
 
 The woman, E’Dena Hines, 33, was discovered by police officers after they were called just before 3 a.m. to an address close to her apartment on West 162nd Street in Manhattan, the authorities said. She was taken to Harlem Hospital Center, where she was pronounced dead. 
 
 Lamar Davenport, who the police said was her boyfriend, was taken into custody at the scene and hospitalized for a psychological evaluation, the authorities said. Mr. Davenport, 30, has since been arrested and charged with murder. 
 
 Ms. Hines’s grandmother was once married to Mr. Freeman, the Academy Award-winning actor. Ms. Hines had a part in one of his movies, playing a receptionist in “5 Flights Up,” which was released in May. 
 
 “The world will never know her artistry and talent, and how much she had to offer,” Mr. Freeman said in a statement released by his publicist on Sunday. 
 
 Ms. Hines’s career on screen was mostly limited to small roles like the one in “5 Flights Up” and a turn as a rude barista in an episode of the ABC hidden-camera series “What Would You Do?” 
 
 On her blog, she wrote that her acting career had left her feeling “unfulfilled,” and at one point, she returned to Memphis, her hometown. 
 
 But she had recently landed a role in an independent film and returned to New York. 
 
 “My dream has come true” and is just beginning, she wrote on July 7. ||||| "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." ||||| "Her star will continue to shine bright in our hearts, thoughts and prayers," the actor said in a statement about E'Dena Hines, 33. 
 
 Morgan Freeman's 33-year-old step-granddaughter, E'Dena Hines, died Sunday morning in New York City from stab wounds, according to police. 
 
 Officers responded to a 911 call and found Hines lying down on West 162nd Street in front of her home at around 3 a.m., an NYPD spokesperson told People in a statement. Hines had been stabbed multiple times in her torso, police say. 
 
 Paramedics took Hines to Harlem Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. 
 
 A 30-year-old man at the scene was taken into custody by police, who took him to Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. Police are continuing to investigate. 
 
 In a statement released to The Hollywood Reporter, Freeman said about Hines: "The world will never know her artistry and talent, and how much she had to offer. 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." 
 
 Hines is the granddaughter of Jeanette Adair Bradshaw, Freeman's first wife. The actor was married to Bradshaw from 1967 to 1979. ||||| Energetic. 
 
 Loud. 
 
 Animated. 
 
 Thats probably the first three words that pop up into people's heads when they think about me. 
 
 In high school, my theater teacher deemed me "the pistol" and I took it as an insult. I couldn't understand why other people seemed to have nicknames that connoted a personality and mine was an object. One girl was the fair queen, another was the peacemaker and I was a steel gun. 
 
 My mother sat me down and explained that it was because I brought the heat. Still didn't get it. 
 
 Then during my orientation at NYU, Mark Wing Davey said some very valuable words: 
 
 "Don't take up all the oxygen in the room" 
 
 Wow! Is that what I had been doing? 
 
 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. 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. 
 
 If your mouth is always moving then your ears are not listening. There is no ability for you to listen while talking and if you are not receiving anything from the person you're talking to then you're actually just monologuing to an audience that will begin to resent you.
– The stepgranddaughter that Morgan Freeman helped raise was stabbed to death in New York City early yesterday, allegedly by a crazed boyfriend. Police have confirmed to People that 33-year-old E'Dena Hines was found outside her Manhattan home with multiple stab wounds around 3am. A witness who called 911 tells the New York Daily News that he witnessed the killing from his apartment and heard the attacker yell, "Get out, devils! I cast you out, devils, in the name of Jesus Christ! I cast you out!" Police sources tell the Daily News that the suspect is Lamar Davenport, Hines' 30-year-old boyfriend. Hines' grandmother was Jeanette Adair Bradshaw, Freeman's first wife. "I want to acknowledge the tremendous outpouring of love and support my family has received regarding the tragic and senseless passing of my granddaughter," Freeman said in a Facebook post. In a statement to the Hollywood Reporter, he said the world "will never know her artistry and talent, and how much she had to offer" and "her star will continue to shine bright in our hearts, thoughts and prayers." Hines, who studied acting and had several minor film roles, had recently returned to New York City from Memphis for a role in an independent film, the New York Times reports. "My dream has come true and it's just beginning," she wrote on her blog.