On the evening of Friday, October 13, 2017, 37-year-old Chanda Lee Hatt was fatally shot in front of her family at the family home in Evansville, Indiana. Chanda, her husband Daniel, and their two children, Zoey and Zane, were returning from a religious retreat in Tennessee when a man who had been house-sitting for them, 51-year-old Richard Brian Worley, opened fire with an AR-15 as Chanda exited the family van. Worley had been lying in wait behind a fence and Chanda was struck and killed in the presence of her husband and children.

Daniel Hatt sent Zoey and Zane to a neighbor’s house for safety. Worley was arrested at the scene and taken into custody at the Vanderburgh County Jail without bond.

Investigators reported a troubled history between Worley and the Hatt family: Worley had previously been in a relationship with Chanda’s mother, Debra Cook, and had been convicted of aggravated battery for stabbing Cook, for which he was released from prison in 2015. Chanda Hatt worked at St. Vincent Hospital for 20 years and held an EMT degree from Ivy Tech. Did anyone who knew Chanda or the family see warning signs before October 13, 2017?