A former FBI special agent says the fatal stabbing and home invasion of a country singer’s mother may not have been “random.”
Virginia authorities said a man killed 62-year-old Holly Hatcher, a former teacher, around midnight on Aug. 3 at home in Rockingham County during a home invasion. Michael Hatcher, 65, shot and killed the intruder, who was identified by officials as 41-year-old Kevin Moses Walker.
The couple’s son, 31-year-old Spencer Hatcher, is an up-and-coming country singer who announced he is canceling several of his upcoming shows following his mother’s death.
Rockingham County Sheriff Bryan Hutcheson said Walker had no known criminal history and is from Pikesville, Maryland, which is about a three-hour drive from the Hatcher’s residence. The sheriff said that the home invasion was random and “highly unusual,” adding that Walker had brought a “large knife” into the home.
Former FBI special agent Jonathan Gilliam told Fox News Digital he questions whether the home invasion and subsequent stabbing was random.
“He drove specifically to where a place, a location was at, where there was a tourist location, where there were these caverns. He took a tour of the cavern. He reserved a camping spot. He went to Walmart and bought a sleeping bag and a knife,” Gilliam said. “Those are very specific things … not random actions.”
“So when I look at that, I know that part of what happened is not random,” Gilliam added.
Gilliam said Walker’s behavior before the crash appeared to be normal but then became “psychotic and random.”
“We know that he did all these actions with structured behavior up until the point of a crash. And then his behavior became psychotic and random,” he said. “So, I think it’s too early, and there’s not enough evidence from what I can see that it’s just to be determined to be a random attack.”
Gilliam also said detectives should determine if the two crossed paths at all in the days leading up to the attack.
“They need to look at what the victims do and if they had any encounters with this guy earlier in the day, because also, if his typical way he operates, if he is a killer for instance, is to go somewhere, wander around in polite manner and then pick some victims and then eventually go get them. They could have met throughout that day,” he said.
Former Washington, D.C., homicide detective Ted Williams told Fox News Digital that while “this is one of the saddest cases that you could come across,” detectives may never find a motive.
“I don’t think we’re going to ever find out the motive in this case, in light of the fact that Kevin Moses Walker is dead,” Williams said. “This certainly is a case that will have to be studied by law enforcement for some time to come, because this man, Kevin Moses Walker, was not on anybody’s radar screen.”
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Spencer Hatcher said in an Instagram post that his planned performances at the VOA Country Music Fest in Ohio and the Rockingham County Fair in Harrisonburg, Virginia, have been canceled.
“I hope to make these dates up to my fans in the future,” Spencer Hatcher wrote. “I appreciated everyone that has lent their support to me and my loved ones.”
