Charlottesville car attack

Car involved in the vehicle-ramming attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.

The Charlottesville car attack was a white supremacist terrorist attack perpetrated on August 12, 2017, when James Alex Fields, Jr. deliberately drove his car into a crowd of people peacefully protesting the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one person and injuring 35. The 20-year-old Fields had previously espoused neo-Nazi and white supremacist beliefs, and drove from Ohio to attend the rally.. He was convicted in a state court for the first-degree murder of 32-year-old Heather Heyer, eight counts of malicious wounding, and hit and run, and was sentenced to life in prison plus an additional 419 years in July 2019. He also pled guilty to 29 of 30 federal hate crime charges to avoid the death penalty, which resulted in another life sentence handed down in June 2019.

Quotes

• During cross examination, Washington said there was a police car and barrier on Market Street preventing her from driving anywhere but down 4th Street.
  • 30 November 2018 tweet by NBC29 about Tadrint "Tay" Washington, driver of vehicle ahead of Fields.

• Washington described hearing a loud noise then noticing someone on top of her car.
  • 30 November 2018 tweet by NBC29