Spencer Hatcher’s Mom Stabbed to Death in Home Invasion

Spencer Hatcher is grieving an unfathomable loss.

The country singer’s mother, Holly Hatcher, was killed Aug. 3 by an armed intruder during a home invasion in Virginia, the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office confirmed in a joint video statement with the Hatcher family. She was 62.

The intruder—later identified by police as 41-year-old Kevin Walker—entered the home and fatally stabbed Holly, a local schoolteacher, before attacking her husband Michael Hatcher, according to Rockingham County Sheriff Bryan Hutcheson. During the altercation, Michael, 65, was able to retrieve a handgun from his car and fire a single shot at Walker, killing the attacker.

When police responded to an emergency call and arrived on the scene, they discovered Michael “suffering from visible injury” that he sustained from the altercation.

“There’s no way for you to know the trauma and the pain and the unanswered questions that I have had [and] that my three sons, Dane, Spencer and Connor have had,” Michael said in the Aug. 7 video statement while sporting a bandage on his right forearm. “Each of you have made it much more bearable through your outpouring of love and your caring and your kindness and support to all of us, and for that, I thank you so much.”