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stab at Hines’ lifeless body until he was arrested.

When officers arrived, he was reportedly still making the stabbing motion while the knife was stuck in her chest – and he didn’t have anything in his fist.

A law enforcement source also told the newspaper Davenport may have been high on cocaine at the time.

They added that he had six past arrests for crimes, including marijuana possession and petit larceny.

Ray Rosario, who claims to be Davenport’s best friend, said he went out for dinner with Davenport, Hines and other friends late on Saturday night – and it was the happiest he had seen Hines for a long time.

He told The Daily Beast: ‘I’m still trying to come to grips with what happened. I’m caught between the hate I have for him, my love for him being my brother, and my heart breaking for her.’

Rosario added the pair seemed to be ‘ecstatic’ just hours before the murder.

Witness Tarafa said he didn’t think much of the screaming at first because there is a church across the street and ‘sometimes there’s people yelling and kids running around’.

He added: ‘I go to my window and I see some people standing in the street watching something. And right then two police cars come in and I notice there’s someone over here right in front of my doorway, and the guy gets off of the girl, and the police go and put him in handcuffs,’ he said.

Tarafa, who lives in the building above where the murder occurred, said he had ‘never seen that kind of violence happen so close to home’ and that it was ‘very scary’, and that he was ‘definitely reconsidering’ his safety in the neighborhood.

He said he wished he could have done something to save the victim.

‘Maybe if I had gone to the window sooner and thought it was more of an emergency situation sooner, then maybe I could have called and the police could have gotten here faster,’ he said.

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