UNION, Ky. -- The man police said rammed his car into a crowd of people protesting a white supremacist rally was "very infatuated with the Nazis," according to one of his high school teachers. 
 
 James Alex Fields Jr. also wanted to join the Army but wasn't allowed to enlist because of his mental health history, the teacher said. The 20-year-old grew up in Union, Kentucky, and recently moved to Northwest Ohio. 
 
 Fields was arraigned Monday morning on a second-degree murder charge, as well as malicious wounding and failure to stop in an accident that resulted in death. He was denied bail. 
 
 Charlottesville police said Fields, rammed his Dodge sports car into a sedan, which then hit a minivan. 
 
 Video caught the Dodge reversing, hitting more people, its windshield splintered from the collision and bumper dragging on the pavement. Medics carried the injured, bloodied and crying, away as a police tank rolled down the street. 
 
 Warning: The video below contains language and images that may be disturbing to some viewers. 
 
 Heather Heyer was killed and 19 people were hurt. 
 
 The collisions sent the vehicles into a crowd of counter-demonstrators. 
 
 H.R. McMaster, President Donald Trump's national security adviser, said Saturday's violence " meets the definition of terrorism ." Federal officials also have opened a civil rights investigation . 
 
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 His mother, Samantha Bloom, told The Associated Press on Saturday night that she knew her son was attending a rally in Virginia but didn’t know it was a white supremacist rally. 
 
 She said she'd told her son "to be careful" and to be peaceful. 
 
 "I thought it had something to do with Trump. Trump’s not a white supremacist," said Bloom, who became visibly upset as she learned of the injuries and deaths at the rally. 
 
 "He had an African-American friend so ...," she said before her voice trailed off. She added that she'd be surprised if her son’s views were that far right. 
 
 Bloom said they'd just relocated to the Toledo, Ohio area from Florence, Kentucky. 
 
 Derek Weimer, who taught two history courses to Fields at Randall K. Cooper High School in Union, Kentucky, said he was a quiet, respectful student but had some "radical ideas on race." 
 
 "He was very infatuated with the Nazis, with Adolf Hitler. He also had a huge military history, especially with German military history and World War II. But, he was pretty infatuated with that stuff. 
 
 "In his freshman year, he had an issue with that that was raised, and from then on we knew that he had those issues. I developed a good rapport with him and used that rapport to constantly try to steer him away from those beliefs to show clear examples -- why that thinking is wrong, why their beliefs were evil, you know, things like that," Weimer said. 
 
 He also recalled Fields wondering what society might be like if the Allies hadn't won. 
 
 "'What if Hitler had won? What if we had this large white supremacist empire going into the modern world?' -- that (Hitler's) views were right," Weimer said. 
 
 He said those views, combined with Fields' history of being prescribed antipsychotic medication, may have been a "perfect storm." 
 
 "I thought at times I got through to him," Weimer said, "but obviously not." 
 
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 Tanner Coleman, who knew Fields in passing at Cooper High, said he seemed like a "gentle giant" who was always alone. 
 
 "I seem to remember him being a very quiet guy who, when spoken to, was kind and shy," Coleman wrote in blog post Sunday. 
 
 Of the 19 patients taken to University of Virginia Medical Center, nine have been discharged and 10 are in good condition, Angela Taylor with UVA Health Systems told ABC News on Sunday afternoon . The hospital has treated additional patients related to Saturday’s events, Taylor said, but the facility does not have an exact number of patients. 
 
 The vehicle that hit the crowd was purchased in June 2015 from a car dealership in Florence , according to a Carfax report. The vehicle’s registration was renewed in Maumee, Ohio in 2016, the report said. 
 
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 The chaos boiled over at what is believed to be the largest group of white supremacists to come together in a decade: the governor declared a state of emergency, police dressed in riot gear ordered people out and helicopters circled overhead. 
 
 Oren Segal, who directs the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, said multiple white power groups gathered in Charlottesville, including members of neo-Nazi organizations, racist skinheads and KKK factions. The white supremacist organizations Vanguard America and Identity Evropa; the Southern nationalist League of the South; the National Socialist Movement; the Traditionalist Workers Party; and the Fraternal Order of Alt Knights also were on hand, he said. 
 
 A photo from Segal shows Fields with Vanguard America, but the group denied he was a member . 
 
 James Alex Fields was w/ the Vanguard America folks in #Charlottesville . Learn more about the group > https://t.co/HNloF8Btnf @ADL_National pic.twitter.com/TmJLi0kfZo — Oren Segal (@orensegal) August 13, 2017 
 
 On the other side, anti-fascist demonstrators also gathered, but they generally aren’t organized like white supremacist factions, said Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center. 
 
 In addition to Fields, at least three more men were arrested in connection to the protests. 
 
 The Virginia State Police announced late Saturday that Troy Dunigan, a 21-year-old from Chattanooga, Tennessee, was charged with disorderly conduct; Jacob L. Smith, a 21-year-old from Louisa, Virginia, was charged with assault and battery; and James M. O’Brien, 44, of Gainesville, Florida, was charged with carrying a concealed handgun. 
 
 Just as the city seemed like to be quieting down, black smoke billowed out from the tree tops just outside of town as a Virginia State Police helicopter crashed into the woods . 
 
 Robby E. Noll, who lives in the county just outside Charlottesville, heard the helicopter sputtering. 
 
 "I turned my head to the sky. You could tell he was struggling to try to get control of it," he said. 
 
 He said pieces of the helicopter started to break off as it fell from the sky. 
 
 Both troopers onboard, Lt. H. Jay Cullen, 48, and Berke M.M. Bates, one day shy of his 41st birthday, were killed. Police said the helicopter had been deployed to the violent protests in the city, which has been caught in the middle of the nation’s culture wars since it decided earlier this year to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, enshrined in bronze on horseback in the city's Emancipation Park. 
 
 In May, a torch-wielding group that included prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer gathered around the statue for a nighttime protest. That scene replayed Friday night, when white supremacists marched through the University of Virginia campus chanting "blood and soil," a Nazi slogan. 
 
 In July, about 50 members of a North Carolina-based KKK group traveled to Charlottesville for a rally. 
 
 Spencer returned for Saturday's protest, and denied all responsibility for the violence. He blamed the police. 
 
 Signer said the white supremacist groups who came into his city to spread hate "are on the losing side of history." 
 
 "Tomorrow will come and we will emerge," he said, "I can promise you, stronger than ever." 
 
 Four-hundred miles away, the mayor of Lexington, Kentucky, hinted that the white supremacists might get the opposite of what they’d hoped for. Mayor Jim Gray announced on Twitter that he would work to remove the Confederate monument at his county’s courthouse . 
 
 "Today’s events in Virginia remind us that we must bring our country together by condemning violence, white supremacists and Nazi hate groups," he wrote. "We cannot let them define our future." 
 
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 Associated Press writers Alan Suderman in Richmond, Virginia, Heidi Brown in Charlottesville, Claire Galofaro in Louisville, Kentucky, and John Seewer in Maumee, Ohio, contributed to this report. ||||| The man accused of murdering a woman by deliberately driving into her during protests against a far-right rally was photographed earlier in the day standing with the white supremacist, neo-Nazi group Vanguard America. 
 
 James Fields, 20, of Maumee, Ohio, allegedly killed Heather Heyer, aged 32, and injured 19 others when he rammed his car into a group peacefully protesting on Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia. 
 
 Photographs from earlier that day appear to show Fields rallying with Vanguard America and carrying a shield bearing the group’s insignia. He wears the white polo shirt and khaki pants that are the group’s uniform. 
 
 Facebook Twitter Pinterest James Fields. Photograph: Albemarle-Charlottesville regional jail/EPA 
 
 Vanguard America were a highly visible presence at the Unite the Right rally on Saturday, where they marched in military-style formation, and the torchlight rally the previous night on the University of Virginia campus. On the group’s Twitter account, and on social media accounts belonging to regional chapters, there was extensive promotion of the Unite the Right rally in the weeks leading up to the event. 
 
 The group’s motto, “blood and soil” was a popular chant at both events. It is derived from the Nazi slogan “blut und boden”, which links conceptions of racial purity with a particular national territory. 
 
 
 
 Col Martin Kumer, the superintendent of Albemarle-Charlottesville regional jail, told the Guardian that Fields had been charged with second degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and failing to stop at an accident that resulted in a death. 
 
 Witnesses said those hit by the car were peacefully protesting against the white supremacist rally and footage showed the vehicle crashing into another car, throwing people over the top of it. The incident with the car left 19 people injured, five critically. 
 
 
 
 Fields was one of four people who have been arrested over the violence on Saturday which included fighting and skirmishing between far-right protesters and counter-protesters. 
 
 Virginia police have not yet provided a motive for the attack using the vehicle but an Federal Bureau of Investigation field office said US attorneys and the FBI had opened a civil rights investigation into the crash. 
 
 The mother of Fields told the Associated Press on Saturday night that she knew her son was attending a rally in Virginia but did not know it was a white supremacist rally. 
 
 “I thought it had something to do with Trump. Trump’s not a white supremacist,” Samantha Bloom said, before becoming visibly upset as she learned of the injuries and deaths. “He had an African-American friend so ...,” she said before her voice trailed off. 
 
 Fields had lived with his mother, reportedly a paraplegic, until around five or six months ago, the two of them having moved to Maumee from Florence, Kentucky, about a year ago for Bloom’s work. 
 
 Neighbours of Bloom told a reporter from the Toledo Blade newspaper that they knew little about the 20-year-old although one resident, Laurie Schoonmaker, recalled that Fields often blasted polka music from his car when he was there. She had not seen him in months, she added. 
 
 According to an uncle who spoke to the Washington Post, Fields’ father was killed by a drunk driver only a few months before the boy was born. His father left him money which the uncle kept in a trust. 
 
 “When he turned 18, he demanded his money and that was the last I had any contact with him,” said the uncle, who spoke on condition of anonymity, adding that his nephew was “not really friendly, more subdued” when they met at family gatherings. 
 
 Fields’ now deactivated Facebook page contained Nazi imagery including a photograph of Hitler as a baby, a picture of the Reichstag in Berlin, and a photograph of him posing with his car, the New York Daily News reported. 
 
 Derek Weimer, who taught Fields history when he was a student at Cooper high school in Union, Kentucky, told the TV station WCPO that he remembered a boy who was “very quiet and very bright,” but one who believed in white supremacy and the Nazi ideology. 
 
 Military records appear to show that Fields served in the US army between August and December 2015. 
 
 Weimer said he recalled Fields had wanted to join the army after graduating but had been turned down because the teenager had been prescribed medicine for a psychotic disorder. “When you bring that in to the picture, and you bring the views, and you bring in the views of Nazism and white supremacism... you start to see it is like a perfect storm.” 
 
 American Fascism 
 
 Vanguard America’s manifesto, American Fascism, details its desire for a white ethnostate, the restoration of strictly patriarchal families and limiting the influence of “international Jews”. 
 
 Of Vanguard America, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) says the group “is particularly focused on recruiting young men and has engaged in unprecedented outreach efforts to attract students on American college campuses”. Its leader, military veteran Dillon Irizarry, has said “the future is the youth”. 
 
 During the 2016-2017 school year, chapters were active in posting flyers on college campuses in 10 states, from Arkansas to Oregon. On the group’s website, printable flyers bear slogans including “Beware the International Jew”, “Imagine a Muslim-Free America”, and “Fascism: The Next Step for America”. 
 
 According to the ADL, the group claims 200 members in 20 states, and has paramilitary tendencies. Members have carried firearms at events in open carry states. 
 
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 Leader Irizarry claims the group started in California. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the group split from “alt right” group American Vanguard. This group in turn arose from the neo-Nazi “Iron March” web forum. Other users of that forum have been involved in alleged violence: in May, Devon Arthurs, who had been active on the forum, was arrested for the murder of two roommates, who were also members of the forum. 
 
 On Twitter on Saturday night, Vanguard America denied that Fields was a member, despite his presence with the group, and his uniform dress, saying that “shields were freely handed out to anyone in attendance”. 
 
 In a previous tweet commenting on the rally, they wrote: “Our members carry a purpose within them that drives them to risk their life and wellbeing for the cause. Bystanders won’t understand.” 
 
 Federal authorities are also looking into a helicopter crash on Saturday that killed two Virginia state police officers who were involved in efforts to quell the clashes. 
 
 
 
 The Associated Press contributed to this report ||||| Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE The mother to the man accused plowing into people with his car in Charlottesville claims she thought her son was going to a Trump-related rally. Nathan Rousseau Smith (@fantasticmrnate) reports. Buzz60 
 
 The driver of the car, identified as James Alex Fields, 20, of Ohio, was charged with one count of second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and one count of hit and run, police said. (Photo: Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail via AP) 
 
 CINCINNATI — The mother of the man accused of killing one and injuring 19 in Saturday's domestic terror attack in Charlottesville, Va., called 911 from her Florence, Ky., apartment at least twice reporting her son was attacking or threatening her. 
 
 According to records, authorities from the Boone County (Ky.) Sheriff's Office and the Florence Police Department responded nine times from November 2010 through February 2013 to the condominium of Samantha Bloom, 49, and her son, James Alex Fields Jr. 
 
 In 2011, Bloom called police to report her son "is being very threatening toward her. The mother is in a wheelchair and doesn't feel in control of the situation and is scared," according to police dispatcher notes. 
 
 The calls were among new details that emerged Monday regarding the family's sometimes tumultuous past. 
 
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 Authorities in Virginia say Fields, a Boone County native, drove his 2010 Dodge Challenger through a crowd of counterprotesters following a white supremacist rally, smashing into two other vehicles and throwing several victims into the air. 
 
 Killed was Heather Heyer, 32, of Charlottesville. 
 
 What the 911 transcripts reveal 
 
 • In November 2010, Bloom called police saying he took her phone and "smacked her in the head ... put his hands over her mouth," after she told him to stop playing video games. She locked herself in the bathroom and Fields had earlier told her that he would "beat her up." She told the 911 operator that she was afraid of her son. 
 
 • In February 2011, she called police at 5:20 a.m. to report Fields had not come home and she was worried about him because he was wearing a T-shirt and shorts. Bloom called police back two hours later to report he was home and acting "lethargic." He threatened to run away if police came to the condo. 
 
 • In October 2011, she called authorities again saying she felt threatened by Fields. She was "not assaulted tonight but he is being very threatening toward her. The mother is in a wheelchair and doesn't feel in control of the situation and is scared." 
 
 • The next month, a woman called authorities back to the condo to report that Fields had threatened Bloom. She told dispatchers that he spat in her face, threatened her and pushed her in the past. That caller said they wanted authorities to take Fields to be assessed, saying Fields was afraid to take him herself in a car. 
 
 Records show Bloom and Fields Jr. lived at the Meadows of Farmview address for 10 years. Bloom told media she had recently moved to Maumee, Ohio, for her job and that Fields had moved out recently. 
 
 Former classmates, teachers say they saw strange behavior 
 
 Caitlin Wilson, a graduate of Randall K. Cooper High School who went to school with Fields, said as early as middle school Fields would draw swastikas and talk about loving Hitler. 
 
 “When I saw his mugshot, I wasn’t shocked,” she said. 
 
 Wilson agrees with the assessment Cooper Principal Michael Wilson gave of Fields on Sunday: That he was quiet and kept to himself. 
 
 She said when Fields would speak up, it wasn’t friendly. 
 
 Boone County Schools spokeswoman Barbara Brady said school officials were not aware of any situation at Cooper High regarding Fields' behavior at the time of his enrollment. 
 
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 She also said that former Cooper teacher Derek Weimer never reached out to the administration about his concerns. Weimer had told The Enquirer there was a complaint filed by a teacher regarding an assignment Fields turned in that was "very much along the party lines of the neo-Nazi movement." 
 
 Brady also called into question the trustworthiness of former Cooper students who had taken to social media to talk about Fields' behavior. 
 
 “How can you trust that information now if they didn’t do anything about it then?” she asked via email. 
 
 Brady also said she wondered why students didn't report Fields' behavior at the time, adding, "Now they are crawling out of the woodwork to get their 15 seconds of fame to say they knew something back then.” 
 
 James Alex Fields Jr., left, in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 12, 2017. (Photo: Alan Goffinski via AP) 
 
 When asked, Wilson, the former classmate, said she and others didn’t report it. 
 
 “This is something I’m guilty of, too, I kind of brushed it off as just creepy,” Wilson said. “We thought it was all talk. No one ever thought he would do something so violent.” 
 
 Another student, Keegan McGrath, 18, told the Associated Press he was roommates with Fields on a class trip to Europe in 2015. He told the AP Fields referred to Germany as "the Fatherland," had no interest in being in France, and refused to interact with the French. 
 
 "He had friends, he had people who would chat with him, it wasn't like he was an outcast," McGrath told the AP. 
 
 Boone County Schools did not provide exact enrollment dates for Fields despite multiple requests, but did say he graduated in 2015. 
 
 Past newspaper reporting paints a bleak picture of Bloom's life even before Saturday's events and the 911 calls from Florence. 
 
 James Alex Fields Sr. died in an Erlanger crash Dec. 5, 1996, after a vehicle in which he was riding struck a utility pole, according to an Associated Press article from two days later. 
 
 He was 33 at the time of death. Fields Jr. would be born to Bloom a little more than five months later. 
 
 The AP article said the driver was charged with murder in Field Sr.'s death after he and another passenger left Fields Sr. in the vehicle to return to a bar they had left. 
 
 According to the article, responding officer Sgt. Tim Thames, said in an affidavit a motorist stopped him to tell him that he had recently stopped at the wreck to offer assistance to two men standing next to the car. 
 
 The article continues, "(the passing motorist) didn't know Fields was still in the car, Thames said. At their request, the motorist took (the driver of the wrecked car) and (the passenger) back to the bar, where police later found them, Thames said." 
 
 Then, on Aug. 21, 1984, when Samantha Bloom was 16, her father killed her mother then himself, according to a Kentucky Post article from the time. 
 
 Marvin Bloom, 42, and Judy Bloom, 37, had recently divorced. Judy Bloom moved into an apartment on Davjo Drive in Cold Spring, Ky., with Samantha four to five months before Marvin killed Judy and himself with a shotgun outside the apartment, according to the article. 
 
 A witness at the apartment complex told police they heard the screams at the time of the shooting. They were Samantha Bloom's, police said. 
 
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 Fields Jr. was denied bail in Virginia Monday, making his court appearance via video from jail. 
 
 The hearing for Fields is set for Aug. 25. He has been charged with second-degree murder and several other counts. 
 
 Contributing: James Pilcher, The Cincinnati Enquirer, and USA TODAY. Follow The Cincinnati Enquirer on Twitter: @Enquirer 
 
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– James Alex Fields Jr. has been charged with second-degree murder among other crimes after allegedly plowing his silver Dodge Challenger into a crowd of counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, Saturday, and killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer in the process. What we know about Fields: The 20-year-old from Maumee, Ohio, was photographed earlier Saturday with Vanguard America, a white supremacist, neo-Nazi group that the Guardian reports dresses in white polo shirts and khakis. The New York Times reports Vanguard America denied Fields is in any way a member and tweeted that wearing a white shirt does "not denote membership ... The shirts were freely handed out to anyone in attendance." Fields' mother, Samantha Bloom, spoke to the AP Saturday night and said that she was aware her son was headed to Virginia for a rally, but didn't know it was a white supremacist rally. "I thought it had something to do with Trump. Trump's not a white supremacist." She continued, "He had an African-American friend so..." then trailed off. Fields and his mother had recently moved to Ohio from northern Kentucky, and one of his former teachers there recalls his experience with Fields to WPCO. Randall K. Cooper High School history teacher Derek Weimer says Fields "was very infatuated with the Nazis, with Adolf Hitler. He also had a huge military history, especially with German military history and World War II." Bloom told the Toledo Blade her son moved into his own place in Maumee "five or six months ago" but texted her Friday to say he had left his cat at her apartment before heading to Virginia. One of Bloom's neighbors said she hadn't seen Fields' car recently, and says when she previously did see him he often had polka music blaring from the car. The Times cites military records that show Fields enrolled in the Army on Aug. 18, 2015, but "his period of active duty concluded" just shy of four months later; it reports the reason why is unclear.