Heather Heyer

The Charlottesville car attack was a white supremacist terrorist attack perpetrated on August 12, 2017, when James Alex Fields Jr. deliberately drove his car into a crowd of people protesting the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one person and injuring 35. Fields, who was 20 at the time, had previously espoused neo-Nazi and white supremacist beliefs, and drove from Ohio to attend the rally.