Aviles went onto say:

" She was on her stomach, and then she somehow flipped over, and he stabbed her on the chest. She was trying to get away from him by pushing him and kicking him.

And then he stopped after she was still.

Aviles told the court she heard Hines – who’s Freeman’s granddaughter from his first marriage to Jeannette Adair Bradshaw – asking her assailant ‘why are you doing this?’.

According to the NY Post, Davenport allegedly stabbed Hines repeatedly while ‘in a drug-induced psychosis’.

The witness said she and Hines’ friends really wanted to intervene in the situation but ‘were scared [Davenport] was gonna attack us, too’.

In her 911 emergency call, she told the operator she was unable to perform CPR on the victim because the killer was straddling her.

Although she now lives in Miami, Florida, Aviles attended the trial specifically ‘to help [Hines] out’.

Aviles said:

I want justice, just like everybody else.

At the time of her death Hines’ Oscar-winning Grandfather said:

The world will never know her artistry and talent, and how much she had to offer.

Hines was the daughter of Freeman’s stepdaughter, who he adopted when he married his first wife, Bradshaw.

After the couple divorced, he married Myrna Colley-Lee and during their marriage, she formally adopted Hines and helped raise her.

Our thoughts are with the family and friends of E’Dena Hines.

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