Bobbie Mitchell, the first Black mayor of Lewisville, Texas, was stabbed and her husband killed, allegedly at the hands of their grandson in their home Monday, April 21.
The first Black mayor of a city in Texas Bobbie Mitchell and husband stabbed
Denton County Commissioner Bobbie J. Mitchell and her husband, Fred Mitchell, was found wounded around 4 a.m., according to the Denton County Sheriff’s Office.
According to authorities, officers responded to a report of an assault in Lewisville at about 3:53 a.m., when the Mitchells were discovered suffering from stab wounds.
The 76-year-old former mayor was rushed to a nearby hospital, but her husband, 76, was pronounced dead about an hour after the attack…