Denton County Commissioner Bobbie Mitchell, who served as the first Black mayor of Lewisville, Texas, from 1993 to 2000, was hospitalized Monday morning and is in stable condition and being treated for stab wounds. Her husband, Fred Mitchell, was pronounced dead around 5 a.m.

Bobbie J. Mitchell, the first Black mayor of Lewisville, Texas, and her husband were found with stab wounds early Monday morning.

A well-known Texas politician was stabbed and her husband murdered at their home early Monday — with their grandson charged with the bloodbath.