James Fields guilty of murder for driving car into crowd – Charlottesville

A jury has found 21-year-old James Alex Fields Jr guilty of first-degree murder for intentionally driving his car into a crowd of counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one woman and injuring dozens.

Fields was convicted in the August 2017 crash that killed 32-year-old Heather Heyer. Her death came after police forced a white nationalist rally to disband after participants clashed with counter-protesters.

The jury of seven women and five men began deliberating on Friday morning and took just over seven hours to reach the guilty verdict.

The Guardian

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