On the afternoon of Friday, October 29, 2021, 55-year-old Michael Walker of Austin was killed while foraging for ginseng in a wooded area behind a home on Peacock Hollow Road, east of Salem in Southern Indiana. Walker was in the woods with two other men and two dogs when a gunshot was heard; officers responding to a 911 call found Walker deceased. An autopsy confirmed he died from a single gunshot wound.

Indiana State Police detectives from the Sellersburg post led the investigation and identified 35-year-old Krystal N. Granger as the person who had fired a weapon. Investigators determined Granger fired at least one shot in the direction of Walker and the two dogs. She was initially arrested on a charge of false informing; after the autopsy results the charge was escalated and she was charged with reckless homicide and held at the Washington County Jail awaiting further proceedings.

Anyone who was in the Peacock Hollow Road area that afternoon or has information about the incident is asked to come forward.