James Alex Fields, the Ohio man who drove his Dodge Challenger into a crowd at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville this summer, now faces a first-degree murder charge for the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer.

A Charlottesville district court Judge announced the new, upgraded charge at a hearing yesterday. Many of Heyer’s family, friends and supporters were in attendance. 

Fields has said that he drove to Charlottesville by himself from Ohio and wanted to hear a speaker at the rally — he was revealed to have had Nazi sympathies in high school.

The “Unite the Right” rally was organized by white nationalists after the city of Charlottesville decided to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a popular city park.

Sam Allard is a former senior writer at Scene.

3 replies on “Charlottesville Killer James Alex Fields Now Faces First-Degree Murder Charge”

  1. Reports and video of her mother says she was killed by a heart attack on the scene. This was likely induced by the trauma of the car attack.

    Antifa rallies are targeted by their own organizers in an attempt to spark political unrest. Everyone is sick of Antifa and the alt left. Can we please move on.

  2. Care to update this story with the information that the driver was allegedly being chased by an Antifa man armed with an assault rifle before driving into the crowd? Care to inform us that George Soros used his disgusting money and plans to influence the events there?

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