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| Subject: Charlottesville car attack suspect charged with hate crime Thu Jun 28, 2018 6:52 pm | |
| An Ohio man accused of driving his car into a crowd of protesters in Virginia last year and killing a woman has been charged with federal hate crimes.
James Alex Fields Jr is already facing charges of murder and other crimes at the state level in Virginia. He has been held in jail without bail.
Prosecutors say he deliberately drove into a group of people who gathered to protest a white nationalist rally.
Graphic video of the incident was widely shared on social media.
Heather Heyer, 32, who was demonstrating against the 12 August event, was struck and killed and dozens of others were injured.
Mr Fields, 21, was charged on Wednesday with 29 counts of hate crime acts, including causing injury and involving an attempt to kill.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44645984 |
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