VIDEO: Morgan Freeman mourns granddaughter found stabbed

Morgan Freeman’s granddaughter was stabbed to death Sunday morning in New York.

New York police responded to a call about 3 a.m. Sunday and found Freeman's granddaughter by marriage , 33-year-old E'dena Hines, lying in the street outside her apartment in Washington Heights with some 16 stab wounds to her body, police said.

Authorities found a 30-year-old male suspect, whom police described as her boyfriend, standing over her body shouting out Bible versus, police told Newsday.

Hines, an actress, recently returned to New York from Memphis to film an independent movie called "Landing Up," which was shot in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

"I want to acknowledge the tremendous outpouring of love and support my family has received regarding the tragic and senseless passing of my granddaughter Edena Hines," Freeman wrote Sunday night on his Facebook page.