The Charlottesville attacker was denied bail at court

The silver Dodge Charger used to injure a group of protestors.
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James Alex Fields Jr., the Ohio man accused of intentionally ramming his car into a crowd of anti-racist demonstrators Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia, appeared in court Monday to face his charges at a bail hearing. He was denied bail, assigned a court-appointed attorney, and scheduled for another hearing later this month.

The vehicle attack killed one woman, 32-year-old Heather Heyer, and injured 19 other people. Fields has been charged with second-degree murder as well as three counts of malicious wounding and one count of fleeing the scene of his car wreck. He is also central to a Justice Department civil rights investigation of the violence in Charlottesville this past weekend.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.