Amid the chaos of a canceled “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia attended by white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and other members of the so-called alt-right on Saturday, a man who has now been arrested drove a car directly into other vehicles and a crowd of people protesting the march.
The Washington Post identified the suspect as 20-year-old James Alex Fields of Ohio, and wrote authorities have booked him “on suspicion of second-degree murder, malicious wounding, failure to stop for an accident involving a death, and hit and run.” He is being held without bail.
Later in the evening, a police helicopter crashed, killing two other people in what authorities told the AP was a connected incident.