FBI Raids Home of Driver Who Slammed into Anti-Racist Protesters

Suspect James Fields
Suspect James Fields

By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com

The FBI raided the home of the white supremacist charged with driving his car into a crowd of anti-racists protesters in Charlottesville, Va., killing one person and injuring more than a dozen others.

FBI agents searched the Oak Hill Apartments complex, where James Alex Fields Jr.’s lives in a one-bedroom flat about 19 mile southwest of Toledo.

The FBI also interviewed Fields’ mother, the Toledo Blade reports

The FBI told Lucas County Sheriff John Tharp that the bureau was “take the lead in this,” he told the Blade. “They contacted me to let me know they were in the area, that they were going to talk to the mother, which they already have. What the conversation was, I don’t know.”

The Justice Department launched a civil rights investigation after Fields was charged with second-degree murder.

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