After Morgan Freeman’s step-granddaughter, E’Dena Hines was brutally murdered by her boyfriend, Lamar Davenport, on an NY street last week, info has been surfacing regarding their past and their relationship. In an interview with MailOnline, an ex-girlfriend of Davenport and another unnamed woman who has been friends with Davenport for 15 years gave their accounts of details they say have not been covered about Hines and Davenport in the media.

The friend said she does not excuse Davenport’s “heinous” crime, but she wants to bring to light a broader picture of both Davenport and Hines. She says that both Davenport and Hines experimented with drugs. She also said that Hine’s family tried to step in and get her away from Davenport to no avail though; While Davenport’s ex-girlfriend says that Davenport was abusive and took PCP and other drugs regularly.

Here’s what was reported:

The friend said ‘I think that they [E’Dena Hines and Lamar Davenport] were drawn together by a lot of their interests – both good and bad….

‘…When we were younger E’Dena was experimenting with drugs and I have been told that continued [with Davenport].’

Asked if this meant hard drugs like heroin or marijuana, the friend said there was…

pot and drugs ‘in the middle ground’ between that and harder stuff.

She said: ‘I think what happened it would be easy to make it seem like one person was a really evil person and one person was really good and make it very simple but with any relationship it’s never that simple especially when substances are involved, when both parties are indulging in the same way and that’s contributing to their problems.

According to the friend, who met Hines in 2004 at NYU, she was ‘magnetic’ and people would ‘gravitate towards her’.

Despite his dark side Davenport was ‘a good person who never, ever, did anything to suggest that he would be capable of this’.

She said: ‘The Lamar that I, and his friends, know is a smart, creative man who does everything and anything for his family and those he loves.’

But asked to characterize their relationship she said it was ‘volatile’ and ‘brought Lamar a great deal of stress at times’.

The arguments appear to have been frequent – and some serious.

The friend said: ‘I know that their family members have been aware of some of these arguments; that’s a sign they were pretty serious, if family members are aware of them’.

She saw Davenport a few weeks ago when he and Miss Hines were going through some troubles and she suggested to him that they break up if he was unhappy.

But he disagreed and told her: ‘I love her very much and want to be with her’.

‘There were no signs he was going to do this,’ the friend said.

‘That’s what is so difficult about this……I think it is drug related. I think that it could be a combination of being stressed with other things. He’s never seemed incapable of handling it [the drugs]’.

Davenport’s ex-girlfriend, Dominique Hadley, whom at times he was dating at the same time as E’Dena, has a slightly different picture of him. They dated off and on from 2010 to 2014:

She [said] Davenport was ‘mysterious and paranoid’ and prone to excessive drug use and heavy drinking.

Hadley said Davenport could be a good boyfriend and was good to her daughter.

But Hadley claimed there was a violent side to her ex and recalled him erupting into a drug and alcohol-addled rage at a family home, leaving her and her four-year-old…