rally in charlottesville, virginia. james alex fields accused of driving his car into counterprotesters, killing one person. he faces charges including second-degree murder and is expected to make his first court appearance today. brian todd has more on the suspect and the investigation. reporter: we ve got important new information about the suspect accused in the car strike which killed that young woman on saturday here in charlottesville. according to our justice producer, mary kay maloney, she got this information from a justice department official familiar with the investigation. federal investigators have enough evidence to be suspicious that the suspect, james fields jr., intended to send a message, not just harm the immediate victims. they re looking into that. they re also looking into whether he had accomplices, anybody who might have helped in the attack. some other information that we re getting about the suspect according to a teacher who taught him history in the last t
not just harm the immediate victims. and they re looking into that. they are also looking into whether he had any accomplices, anybody who might have helped him in the attack. some other information that we re getting about the suspect, according to a teacher who taught him history in the last two years of high school. the teacher s name is derek weimer, who taught him at a high school in northern kentucky. he said that the suspect, james fields, had some disturbing views about nazis. this comes off another day of high tension in charlottesville. the organizer, white supremacist organizer of the rally, jason kessler, showed up intending to hold a news conference. he spoke for several minutes but didn t get much of a word in edgewise. a crowd of counterprotesters were shouting him down. they converged on him h. at some point he was fell or was pushed to the ground. police swooped in. got him out of there, got him
enough evidence to be suspicious that the suspect, james fields jr., intended to send a message not just harm the immediate victims. and they re looking into that. they are also looking into whether he had any accomplices, anybody who might have helped him in the attack. some other information that we re getting about this suspect, according to a teacher who taught him history in the last two years of high school. the teacher is derek weimer who taught him at a high school in northern kentucky. he said that this suspect, james fields, had disturbing views about nazis, he had an inf infatuation with nazis. the white supremacist organizer, jason kessler, showed up sunday intending to hold a news conference. he spoke for several minutes but didn t get a word in edgewise because a crowd of counterprotesters were shotting him down, making noise shouting him down, making noise.