A horrific homicide unfolded earlier this month in Virginia that has despatched shock waves throughout the nation music neighborhood.
As WTVR reported on Friday, 62-year-old trainer Holly Hatcher was savagely killed again on August 3 in Rockingham County after a stranger broke into her and her husband’s house. 65-year-old Michael Hatcher, the husband, was wounded through the assault however managed to kill the perp in an act of self-defense.
Police recognized the deceased killer as 41-year-old Kevin Moses Walker of Pikeville, Maryland. Police stated that on August 1, Walker rented a campsite at Limitless Caverns in New Market, Virginia, at 2:22 p.m. and toured the caverns at roughly 3 p.m.
Walker then bought a big knife three hours later (5:24 p.m.) at a Walmart roughly seven minutes from the campsite.
Courtesy of WTVR, right here is the remainder of the timeline main as much as the assault:
The next morning, Virginia State Police responded to a report of an deserted car on Limitless Caverns Highway. There, they found the shop at Limitless Caverns had been damaged into, with harm in keeping with being rammed by a car.
Authorities decided Walker had entered each the shop and the caverns, although nothing was stolen.
Regardless of efforts to find Walker utilizing patrol automobiles and a drone, he wasn’t discovered. Felony warrants have been obtained for him at the moment.
The following name authorities acquired was at 11:58 p.m. on Sunday, August 3, when Michael Hatcher reported the house invasion.
When police deputies arrived on the scene, they discovered Walker useless within the driveway and Michael Hatcher injured. Holly Hatcher was found inside the house with a number of stab wounds.
Throughout a press convention, Rockingham County Sheriff Bryan Hutcheson acknowledged that such against the law nearly by no means occurs within the space. He additionally referred to as the assault “random.”
“It is a extremely uncommon, apparently utterly random [attack] with a person with no identified historical past of violent habits of any type, and even felony habits of any type,” Hutcheson stated.
Michael and Holly Hatcher are the mother and father of nation star Spencer Hatcher, who has greater than 720,000 followers on TikTok. As The Every day Mail notes, he launched his first EP album final October.
The 27-year-old Hatcher cancelled a number of upcoming live shows following the brutal crime.
“It’s with a heavy coronary heart and overwhelming disappointment that — attributable to a monumental loss in our household — I need to cancel my upcoming exhibits at VOA Nation Music Fest in Butler County, OH (8/8) and at Rockingham County Truthful in Harrisonburg, VA (8/11 & 8/12),” he wrote on Instagram.
“I hope to make these dates as much as my followers sooner or later. I admire everybody that has lent their help to me and my family members. We ask that everybody please respect our household’s privateness presently.”
An investigation into the motive for the assault stays ongoing.
