Car plows into crowd of counterprotesters in Charlottesville.

The driver of the car, James Alex Fields Jr., 20, of Maumee, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and failing to stop at the scene of a crash that resulted in a death. The woman killed was identified as Heather D. Heyer of Charlottesville. Witnesses to the crash said a gray sports car accelerated into a crowd of counterdemonstrators, who were marching jubilantly near the mall after the white nationalists had left, and hurled at least two people into the air. “It was probably the scariest thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” said Robert Armengol, who was at the scene reporting for a podcast he hosts with students at the University of Virginia. “After that it was pandemonium. The car hit reverse and sped, and everybody who was up the street in my direction started running.” The planned rally was promoted as “Unite the Right,” and both its organizers and critics said they expected it to be one of the largest gatherings of white nationalists in recent times, attracting groups like the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis and movement leaders like David Duke and Richard Spencer. Many of these groups have felt emboldened since the election of Donald Trump as president. Duke, a former imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, told reporters Saturday that the protesters were “going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump” to “take our country back.” On Saturday afternoon, Trump – speaking at the start of a veterans’ event at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey – addressed what he described as “the terrible events unfolding in Charlottesville, Virginia.” Chilling Video Shows Moment Driver Plowed Into Crowd Of Protesters In Virginia New details about Ohio man facing murder charges in Charlottesville