
Spencer Hatcher is grieving an unfathomable loss.
The nation singer’s mom, Holly Hatcher, was killed Aug. 3 by an armed intruder throughout a house invasion in Virginia, the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Workplace confirmed in a joint video assertion with the Hatcher household. She was 62.
The intruder—later recognized by police as 41-year-old Kevin Walker—entered the house and fatally stabbed Holly, an area schoolteacher, earlier than attacking her husband Michael Hatcher, in line with Rockingham County Sheriff Bryan Hutcheson. Through the altercation, Michael, 65, was capable of retrieve a handgun from his automotive and fireplace a single shot at Walker, killing the attacker.
When police responded to an emergency name and arrived on the scene, they found Michael “affected by seen damage” that he sustained from the altercation.
“There is not any means so that you can know the trauma and the ache and the unanswered questions that I’ve had [and] that my three sons, Dane, Spencer and Connor have had,” Michael stated within the Aug. 7 video assertion whereas sporting a bandage on his proper forearm. “Every of you will have made it way more bearable via your outpouring of affection and your caring and your kindness and assist to all of us, and for that, I thanks a lot.”