Ex-mayor stabbed and husband slain in rampage at their home: police

The first Black mayor of Lewisville, Texas, was stabbed, and her husband was killed at the hands of their grandson in an early morning attack Monday, police said.

Mitchell Blake Reinacher, 23, has been charged with murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the stabbing of longtime Denton County Commissioner Bobbie J. Mitchell and her husband, Fred Mitchell, the Daily Beast reported.

When police arrived and found the wounded couple just before 4 a.m., both victims had suffered from stab wounds and were transported to hospitals. Reinacher, meanwhile, was still on scene “and was immediately taken into custody without incident,” according to a Lewisville Police Department statement.

“Commissioner Mitchell currently serves the Lewisville area and is a prominent public servant,” according to the Lewisville Police Department. “She is a former Lewisville City Council member and was the city’s first Black mayor, elected in 1993. She held the office until her resignation in January 2000 to run for her current county position.”

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The 76-year-old former mayor is in stable condition and undergoing treatment for her wounds. Her husband, 76, died about an hour after the stabbing, police said.

“This news will have a profound impact on our community,” Rachel Roberts, a Lewisville police spokeswoman, told the Dallas Morning News, as reported by the Daily Beast. “The City of Lewisville stands united in rejecting violence and remains committed to justice, peace, and the safety of all who live and serve here.”

A Republican with a long political history, Mitchell identified Reinacher as one of her nine grandchildren on her government website, according to the Daily Beast. Reinacher remains in a Lewisville jail on the pending charges.