According to Fields's former high school teachers, the suspect sympathized with Nazis and idolized Adolph Hitler. 

Derek Weimer, Fields's social studies teacher at Randall K. Cooper high school in Union, Kentucky,

According to Fields's former high school teachers, the suspect sympathized with Nazis and idolized Adolph Hitler. 

Derek Weimer, Fields's social studies teacher at Randall K. Cooper high school in Union, Kentucky, told the Associated Press about Fields's troubling interests. 

"Once you talked to James for a while, you would start to see that sympathy towards Nazism, that idolization of Hitler, that belief in white supremacy," Weimer told AP. "It would start to creep out."

Weimer also said Fields was a big Trump supporter and felt particularly strong about Trump's promise to build a border wall with Mexico. 

UPDATE AUGUST 12:

A suspect has been named in the terrorist attack on anti-hate protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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.

We'll bring you more as information becomes available.