The woman murdered was 32-year-old Heather Heyer who, along with the couple, drove 50 minutes from Lovingston, Virginia to participate in the counter-protests.
A GoFundMe page has been set
The woman murdered was 32-year-old Heather Heyer who, along with the couple, drove 50 minutes from Lovingston, Virginia to participate in the counter-protests.
A GoFundMe page has been set up in her honor. Her mother captioned the crowdfunding cause with the note, “She died doing what was right. My heart is broken, but I am forever proud of her.”
Blair also reacted to the passing of her friend and told the same website, “I'm still numb. My friend is dead. Heather was with us because this is what Heather believed in. She died standing up for what she believed in.”
34 more were injured during the terror attack in Charlottesville, Virginia. A “Unite the Right” rally was held in the city yesterday by white supremacists and nationalists with an aim of protesting the removal of a statue honoring Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
State police and the Virginia National Guard moved in on the park after Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffedeclared a state of emergency. The alt-right protest was also declared as an unlawful assembly.
James Alex Fields, Jr., a registered Republican, was booked in jail on suspicion of second-degree murder, according to the Washington Post. The 20-year-old is from Maumee, Ohio, outside of Toledo.
Our condolences go out to Marcus Martin, Marissa Blair and the family of Heather Heyer.