expected in court today. brian todd has more on the suspect and the investigation. reporter: 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 fieldser j, intended to send a message not just harm the immediate victims. 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, this teacher s name is derek weimer, who taught him at a high school in northern kentucky. he said that this suspect, james fields, had some very disturbing views about nazis, that h
we need more from our president on this issue. this president needs to do exactly that today. call this white supremicism evil. the department of justice and fbi launching a civil rights investigation into the deadly events at the white nationalist rally in charlottesville. james alex field accused of driving his car into a crowd of counterprotesters killing one person. he faces multiple charges including second-degree murder and is expected to make his first court appearance today. cnn s brian todd with more on the suspect and the investigation. reporter: we ve got some 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
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