The grandson of a Denton County Commissioner has been charged with murder and assault after stabbing his grandparents early Monday morning, according to Lewisville police. The Lewisville Police Department said officers responded to a report of an assault in progress in the 1000 block of Springwood Drive at about 3:53 a.

A county commissioner in Denton County, Texas, is in the hospital and her husband is dead after a stabbing attack by the victims' grandson, local police said Monday. Police in Lewisville — a suburban city north of Dallas — said officers responded to a home just before 4 a.

Bobbie J. Mitchell, who has been a Denton County commissioner since 2000, is also the first Black mayor of Lewisville.