BREAKING: Driver in deadly car attack at the Charlottesville white nationalist rally, which killed Heather Heyer, has pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes.
James Alex Fields was at the "Unite The Right" when he killed anti-racism activist Heather Heyer, 32.
James Alex Fields Jr., 21, from Maumee, Ohio, pleaded guilty to 29 of 30 charges against him, stemming from his deadly car attack in Charlottesville on Aug. 12, 2017. The single charge in Count 30 was brought under a provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1968. It had accused Fields of racially motivated violent interference with a federally protected activity — counter protesters using the public streets and sidewalks of Charlottesville — and carried a possible death penalty.
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