Freeman kin stab witness: Vic said ‘why?’

A WITNESS to the stabbing death of Morgan Freeman’s granddaughter in Washington Heights testified Tuesday that the victim used her last breaths to ask why.

“Why are you doing this?” E’Dena Hines asked her longtime boyfriend, Lamar Davenport, as he repeatedly knifed her outside their building on W. 162nd St. near St. Nicholas Ave., according to the passerby.

Hines’ dying words on Aug. 16, 2015, were overheard by nursing student Cristina Aviles, 22, who testified Tuesday that she and a group of friends came upon the killing as they walked to a nearby apartment.

Davenport, 33, is charged with second-degree murder in the savage slaying of Hines, also 33. His attorneys say he’s not guilty by reason of insanity because he was in the throes of a PCP-induced psychosis at the time of the attack.

Aviles and her friends watched as Davenport plunged a blade into Hines’ body 25 times — leaving her lifeless on the asphalt.

“We really wanted to do something, but we were scared he was gonna attack us, too,” Aviles told reporters in the hallway of Manhattan Supreme Court.