Dec. 11 (UPI) -- A Virginia jury recommended life in prison Tuesday for a man convicted last week of murdering a counter-protester at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville.
James Fields, 21, a self-described neo-Nazi from Maumee, Ohio, intentionally drove his car through a crowd of people protesting the United the Right rally organized by white nationalists on Aug. 12, 2017, killing a woman and injuring 35 people, the Virginia jury determined last week. The jury found him guilty of first-degree murder in the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer, five counts of aggravated malicious wounding and one count of hit-and-run.