Neo-Nazi James Alex Fields Jr. was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for killing Heather Heyer in a vehicular attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year. A jury sentenced Fields to one life term for the murder, along with 419 years for another nine charges, according to NBC Washington. Fields was found guilty of all 10 charges on Friday, and faces 30 charges in a separate federal case concerning the same attack. On Monday, Heyer’s mother, Susan Bro, said in emotional testimony that Fields tried to silence an activist by killing her daughter. Fields tried to silence her...

Source: Huffington Post December 11, 2018 17:41 UTC