The mother of an up-and-coming country star was stabbed to death after a stranger broke into her Virginia home and attacked her and her husband, according to authorities.

Holly Hatcher, 62, whose son is music artist Spencer Hatcher, was murdered in her home north of Harrisonburg last Sunday by 41-year-old Kevin Moses Walker, WTVR reported .

Her husband, Michael Hatcher, 65, was also wounded in the terrifying attack just before midnight on Aug. 3, but managed to shoot Walker dead after retrieving a handgun from his vehicle. 4

“This is a highly unusual, apparently completely random [attack] with an individual with no known history of violent behavior of any kind, or even criminal behavior of any kind,” Rockingham County Sheriff Bryan Hutcheson told a press conference. 4

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