Heyward Sullivan who was Caroline Sullivan's father, is a minor antagonist in Candyman shown in a flashback, he was the one responsible for the murder of the slave who would become Candyman at the hands of a lynch mob - who brutally tortured him for the "crime" of having sex with a Cacuasian woman (more accurately Caroline, his daughter - whom he had entrusted the slave to paint a portrait of, unaware the two were actually in love), who subsequently became pregnant.