CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — An Ohio man accused of driving into a crowd protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville has been indicted on 10 felony counts, including first-degree murder.
Court records show a grand jury returned an indictment Monday against 20-year-old James Alex Fields.
Prosecutors say Fields drove into peaceful counterprotesters the day of the rally that drew hundreds of white nationalists to the Virginia college town. A woman was killed, and authorities say 35 people were injured.
Fields, described by a former teacher as fascinated with Nazism, was initially charged with second-degree murder. The charge was upgraded last week.
Also indicted Monday were three men charged in connection with an attack on a man in a parking garage the day of the rally, and a man charged with firing a gun.
Will Ku Klux Keebler be able to interfere with this?
I realize they are State charges, but the racists always try to protect their own.
Looks like white male privilege isn’t working for him.
He sounds like he spent the past 10 years of his life posting warning signs that he was growing up to be violently deranged. And most of the people he was in contact with pushed him along that path.
Maybe. All it will take is one juror to get him a mistrial.
Not for lack of trying however.