The self-described neo-Nazi convicted of killing Heather Heyer by ramming his car into a crowd protesting a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 will learn on Friday whether he will spend the rest of his life in prison. Subsequent alt-right gatherings failed to draw the crowds of size that assembled in Charlottesville. An anti-white liberal,” Fields said, according to court papers filed by prosecutors. Fields, a resident of Maumee, Ohio, was photographed hours before the attack carrying a shield with the emblem of a far-right hate group. They asked a judge only to sentence him to less than life in prison, without specifying a number, seeking mercy citing his relative youth and history of mental health diagnoses.

Source: National Post June 28, 2019 10:03 UTC