A Texas commissioner was injured and her husband was killed after they were allegedly stabbed by their grandson, police said.

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.

The Texas Lottery Commission did not immediately clarify why Ryan Mindell chose to resign, as lawmakers have discussed abolishing the lottery outright.

Ryan Mindell, the embattled executive director of the Texas Lottery Commission, has resigned, according to a terse press release published on the agency's website Monday afternoon. Mindell's departure comes almost exactly one year to the day after he took over the top job at the agency,

The resignation comes after the Texas House adopted a budget that would reduce the lottery's budget to zero, leaving the agency's future uncertain.

A Houston-area deputy was shot by a suspect who was also wounded during a chaotic incident outside a Family Law Center, authorities said