The alleged driver of the car that plowed into a group of counterprotesters in Charlottesville has been charged with one count of second-degree murder .
The suspect’s been identified as James Alex Fields Jr., a 20-year-old Ohio man. He’s facing the second-degree murder charge, along with three counts of malicious wounding and one count of failing to stop at an accident that resulted in death … according to the superintendent of the Albemarle Regional Jail.
In disturbing video of the crash … the suspect Fields appears to deliberately drive his Dodge Challenger into a group of counterprotesters walking down the street, then floors it in reverse in an attempt to flee. He was captured shortly after.
As we reported … a 32-year-old woman was killed in the incident. The city’s police chief said at least 35 people were injured during Saturday’s violence between white nationalist rallygoers and counterprotesters.
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