James Alex Fields Jr.
James Alex Fields Jr. (born 1997) is a white supremacist and Neo-Nazi. He killed Heather Heyer during the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017 after being chased by a protestor with a gun.
Fields faces 20 years to life, and is expected to be sentenced at a later date.
Biography
According to Fields' high school history teacher, Derek Weimer, Fields was prescribed an antipsychotic as anger management medication after he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Fields told a judge that he was receiving treatment for bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Fields' supremacist beliefs date back to when he was in high school, where classmates claimed that he often praised Adolf Hitler and drew swastikas.