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.

Officers responded shortly before 4 a.m. to reports of an assault in progress at a home in the 1000 block of Springwood Drive.

The sanctuary inside Westside Baptist Church was filled with grief, prayer and remembrance Monday night as the community gathered to support Denton County Commissioner Bobbie Mitchell and honor the life of her husband,