Trailblazing mayor stabbed in her home by grandson, who also killed her husband in overnight attack: Police

A well-known and trailblazing Texas person and her hubby were stabbed by their grandson during a convulsive altercation astatine their location adjacent Dallas aboriginal Monday morning, authorities say.

Bobbie J. Mitchell, a Denton County commissioner, survived the onslaught but her hubby Fred Mitchell succumbed to his injuries, according to the Lewisville Police Department. The couple’s 23-year-old grandson Mitchell Blake Reinacher was arrested and stands accused of execution and aggravated battle with a deadly weapon.

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Cops received a telephone astir an battle successful advancement soon earlier 4 a.m. Monday astatine a location successful the 1000 artifact of Springwood Drive successful Lewisville, a metropolis successful the northwest portion of the greater Dallas area. When the archetypal responding serviceman arrived, helium could perceive screaming coming from inside, Lewisville Police Chief Brook Rollins told reporters astatine a press conference. The serviceman rushed into the location and recovered Reinacher and took him into custody.

The Mitchells were successful the location suffering from stab wounds and they were transported to section hospitals.

Bobbie Mitchell is successful unchangeable information but doctors pronounced her hubby dormant astir 5 a.m. Rollins said constabulary are inactive trying to found a motive and what led up to the incident. Reinacher lived astatine the location with his grandparents.

Bobbie Mitchell became the archetypal Black politician of Lewisville successful 1993 and served successful the presumption until 2000, erstwhile she became a region commissioner, her online biography said. Her territory includes Lewisville and the surrounding areas.

Lewisville Mayor TJ Gilmore said Bobbie Mitchell should marque a afloat recovery.

“There is simply a agelong roadworthy of recovery,” Gilmore told reporters astatine the property conference. “We are getting quality that Commissioner Mitchell is recovering and we’re pleased connected that, but we are saddened, profoundly saddened astatine the nonaccomplishment of her husband, Fred Mitchell. If anybody has ever been astatine a nationalist lawsuit wherever Bobbie Mitchell has prayed implicit you, you cognize that she does an astonishing job. Well, present it’s clip for the assemblage to springiness back. So immoderate clip that you person implicit the adjacent mates of days oregon weeks to uplift Bobbie and the family, delight bash so.”

Reinacher is the lad of the Mitchells’ daughter. The Mitchells’ besides person a son, 9 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.

The fishy remains astatine the Lewisville jail. It wasn’t wide if helium had retained an lawyer oregon erstwhile his adjacent tribunal quality is scheduled. A probable origin apprehension affidavit was not instantly available.

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