Jury selection begins today in the trial of the man accused of ramming his car through a crowd of people protesting a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. James Alex Fields, Jr. is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Heather Heyer, and faces additional charges of malicious wounding.
One of those wounded was Star Peterson. When the August 12, 2017 “Unite the Right” rally erupted in violence, Peterson was with a multi-racial group of counter-protesters marching downtown. She didn’t see the gray Dodge Challenger coming from behind, accelerating down a hill on a narrow one-way street.
“I just heard three bumps,” she recalls. “Two of them were his left tires going over my leg.”
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