White Nationalist Sentence To Life For Killing Heather Heyer

  • 5 years ago
According to Reuters, James Fields was sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge for killing a resident of Charlottesville during a white nationalist rally in 2017.
The 22-year-old drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing Heather Heyer, and injuring 19 other people.
Heyer was a native of Charlottesville, Virginia.
Fields rammed the group after turning his car down a street during the Unite the Right Rally on Aug. 12, 2017.
Attorneys representing Fields asked the judge of a lesser sentence.

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