Car Hits Charlottesville Crowd: Suspect To Remain Jailed

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA — Bail was denied Monday for an Ohio man who authorities said plowed a car into counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia.

James Alex Fields Jr., 20, of Maumee, Ohio, remains held at the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. He is charged with second-degree murder and other counts for allegedly driving a car into the crowd, killing a woman and injuring 19 others.

Fields has been detained since Saturday. Jail officials told The Associated Press they don't know if he has an attorney. (For more information on this and other Virginia stories, subscribe to Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts. If you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

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Fields was fascinated with Nazism, idolized Adolf Hitler and was identified by school officials in his freshman year of high school for his "deeply held, radical" convictions on race, a high school teacher said.

Violence erupted in Charlottesville as white nationalists took to the streets to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Saturday. The deadly encounter began brewing the night before.

Three people were killed in events related to the "Unite the Right" rally, including a counter-protester and two Virginia State Police troopers. Read a full timeline of events.

Photo credit: Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail via AP