{"id":2038506,"date":"2025-09-21T06:36:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T06:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2038506"},"modified":"2025-09-21T06:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T06:36:57","slug":"country-singer-spencer-hatcher-breaks-silence-after-mom-was-killed-in-virginia-home-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/country-singer-spencer-hatcher-breaks-silence-after-mom-was-killed-in-virginia-home-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Country singer Spencer Hatcher breaks silence after mom was killed in Virginia home invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F09%2Fspencer-hatcher.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261758421443\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Country singer Spencer Hatcher remembered his mother as his \u201cbiggest fan\u201d as he broke his silence weeks after <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/11\/us-news\/country-star-spencer-hatchers-mother-murdered-in-virginia-home-invasion\/\">she was murdered during a home invasion<\/a> in Virginia. <\/p>\n<p>In a video posted to his Instagram page on Sept. 9, Hatcher thanked his fans for the \u201clove and support\u201d shown towards his family during the time he described as the \u201cworst time of our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mom was my biggest fan and my biggest supporter in everything that I did,\u201d Hatcher said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Country singer Spencer Hatcher opened up about his mother\u2019s death in an Instagram video. <span class=\"credit\">Spencer Hatcher\/YouTube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cShe loved the music. She loved the shows and after a lot of thought and prayer and speaking to my label about continuing on, you know, I\u2019ve made the decision that I 100% want to continue making music and bringing smiles to people\u2019s faces and being out on stage and everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The musician\u2019s mother, Holly Hatcher, died after a stranger broke into her Harrisonburg, Va., home just before midnight on Aug. 3 and attacked the 62-year-old and her husband, Michael, according to the Rockingham County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Michael Hatcher, 65, was wounded in the attack but managed to get a handgun from his car and fatally shoot the intruder, identified as 41-year-old Kevin Moses Walker.<\/p>\n<p>Rockingham County Sheriff Bryan Hutcheson described Walker\u2019s attack as \u201chighly unusual and apparently completely random\u201d and said the killer had no known history of \u201cviolent behavior of any kind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walker purchased a sleeping bag and a knife at a Walmart two days before the attack and rented a campsite at Endless Caverns in New Market, Va., which was 20 miles north of the home, according to police.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Hatcher thanked fans for their \u201clove and support\u201d after his mom\u2019s death. <span class=\"credit\">@spencerhatcherofficial\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Holly Hatcher was killed inside her Harrisonburg, Va., home during the invasion. <span class=\"credit\">Holly Hatcher \/ Facebook<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.nypost.com\/protected-iframe\/ae07a3726bec0fc91a840dddea9d294c\" scrolling=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"\" allow=\"camera; fullscreen;\"><br \/>\n\t<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The following day, felony warrants were issued for Walker after cops discovered Endless Caverns was broken into and Virginia State Police found the suspect\u2019s car abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>Police were unable to locate Walker until Michael called the police after the brutal home invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Walker was found dead in the driveway after Michael shot the gunman in self-defense, authorities said. Holly was found dead inside with stab wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Hatcher said the death of his mother, who was a teacher in rural Virginia for nearly 20 years, played a crucial role in his decision to move forward with touring.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Kevin Moses Walker did not have a history of \u201cviolent behavior of any kind.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Rockingham County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Police described the home invasion and attack as \u201chighly unusual\u201d and \u201ccompletely random.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">WTVR CBS 6<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBut I\u2019m doing it a lot because I know that that\u2019s what my mom would want me to do,\u201d the rising star suggested.\u201d You know, she\u2019d want me to keep on and I know how much she loved it and I know how much y\u2019all love it so I\u2019m not going to quit. I\u2019m going to keep on going as hard as I possibly can, as I always have and I want you to come along on this journey with me as I get back into it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cDrink You Gone\u201d singer planned to get back out on the road and promote his new music.<\/p>\n<p>The singer has nearly a dozen performances booked until the end of the year, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/spencerhatchermusic.com\/pages\/tour\">according to the tour section of his website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore all of this happened, we had a pretty big schedule, we were going to go out on a radio tour and we had shows lined up and lots of exciting things that we\u2019re going to resume,\u201d Hatcher shared. \u201cWe\u2019re going to go back to the schedule that we had, gotta go out to these radio stations, we\u2019re going to keep going out and playing shows.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country singer Spencer Hatcher remembered his mother as his \u201cbiggest fan\u201d as he broke his silence weeks after she was murdered during a home invasion in Virginia. In a video posted to his Instagram page on Sept. 9, Hatcher thanked his fans for the \u201clove and support\u201d shown towards his family during the time he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2038507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[22846,21741,342685,21800,376729,320202],"class_list":["post-2038506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-country-music","tag-entertainment","tag-home-invasion","tag-music","tag-stabbings","tag-virginia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Country-singer-Spencer-Hatcher-breaks-silence-after-mom-was-killed.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2038506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2038507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}