India, April 22 -- A Texas politician was stabbed, and her husband brutally killed, by their grandson at their home early Monday, April 21. The Denton County Sheriff's Office said in a release on Facebook that longtime Denton County Commissioner Bobbie J. Mitchell and her husband, Fred Mitchell, were found wounded just before 4 am inside their home in Lewisville. This is where she served as the city's first black mayor.

While the Republican politician, 76, was taken to the hospital in stable condition, her husband, 75, was pronounced dead about an hour after being stabbed. "The suspect, a family member of the victims, was still on scene and was immediately taken into custody without incident," the release said.

The suspect has been iden...