According to reports, 41-year-old Kevin Walker entered the Hatcher home and stabbed Holly to death before attacking her husband, Michael Hatcher. Michael was able to get free and was able to get a handgun out of his car that he used to shoot and kill Walker.

Holly Hatcher, the mother of country artist Spencer Hatcher and a longtime Virginia teacher, was fatally stabbed during a “random” home invasion.

The suspected killer, Kevin Moses Walker, reportedly broke into a tourist cave the day before he attacked the Hatchers