Rescue personnel help injured people after a car ran into a large group of protesters after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. The nationalists were holding the... (Associated Press) 
 
 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The Latest on the white nationalist rally being held in Charlottesville (all times local): 
 
 11:54 p.m. 
 
 Three more men have been arrested in connection to the violent clashes between white supremacists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville. 
 
 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. 
 
 Three people died during the violent day in Charlottesville. 
 
 A 32-year-old woman was killed when a car plowed into a crowd of protesters. The driver, James Alex Fields Jr., a 20-year-old from Ohio, was charged with second-degree murder. 
 
 Two state police troopers were killed when their helicopter crashed in the woods on the outskirts of town. 
 
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 11:10 p.m. 
 
 U.S. officials have opened a civil rights investigation into the circumstances of the deadly car attack that took place amid clashes of white nationalists and counter-demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia. 
 
 The investigation was announced late Saturday by officials of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Virginia and the Richmond field office of the FBI. 
 
 In a statement, Attorney General Jeff Sessions says U.S. Attorney Rick Mountcastle has begun the investigation and will have the full support of the Justice Department. 
 
 Sessions says, "The violence and deaths in Charlottesville strike at the heart of American law and justice." 
 
 He adds, "When such actions arise from racial bigotry and hatred, they betray our core values and cannot be tolerated." 
 
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 11 p.m. 
 
 A white nationalist blames police for the violence that erupted before and after a rally where he was scheduled to speak before it turned deadly. 
 
 Richard Spencer told The Associated Press on Saturday that he doesn't take responsibility for the violence and accused state and local police of endangering lives in how they handled the rally. 
 
 Spencer said that he "did not attempt to engage in any kind of violence. So the idea that I could be held responsible is absurd. It's like blaming the fire department for a fire." 
 
 He said that he was pepper-sprayed twice during the day. 
 
 Spencer said he recommended that people should disperse after the state of emergency was declared. 
 
 Spencer also said he found President Donald Trump's comments on the Charlottesville violence to be "rather vague and kind of lame." 
 
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 10:25 p.m. 
 
 A woman who identified herself as the mother of the man accused of driving his car into a crowd of peaceful protesters says he told her he was going to the rally. 
 
 Samantha Bloom, of Ohio, confirmed details about her son's car and his trip to Virginia, saying she received a text from him last week that said he'd gotten some time off from work and was going to a rally. 
 
 She said her son hadn't given her any details about the rally but that she told him "to be careful" and to peaceful. 
 
 Bloom became visibly upset as she learned that dozens of people were injured during a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. 
 
 Bloom said she and Fields had just relocated to the Toledo area from Florence, Kentucky, a Cincinnati, Ohio, suburb 
 
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 9:40 p.m. 
 
 Authorities say a 20-year-old Ohio man accused of driving a car into a group of counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally has been charged with second-degree murder and other counts. 
 
 The Charlottesville Police Department said in a statement Saturday night that James Alex Fields Jr. of Ohio also faces three counts of malicious wounding, and one count related to leaving the scene. 
 
 Col. Martin Kumer, superintendent of the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail, said Fields was in custody there Saturday night. Kumer says he doesn't believe Fields has obtained an attorney yet. 
 
 He says a bond hearing is scheduled for Monday. 
 
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 8:45 p.m. 
 
 Virginia state police said one of their agency's helicopters crashed Saturday outside Charlottesville, killing two troopers. 
 
 Police said the helicopter was assisting law enforcement officers monitoring the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. 
 
 Police said Lt. H. Jay Cullen of Midlothian and Trooper-pilot Berke M.M. Bates of Quinton were killed in the crash. 
 
 The crash happened just a few hours after a car plowed into a crowd of people peacefully protesting against the white nationalist rally. One person was killed and at least two dozen were hurt. 
 
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 This story has been corrected to fix the spelling of Trooper-Pilot Berke M.M. Bates' first name. It had been spelled Burke. 
 
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 6:35 p.m. 
 
 Officials say the deaths of two people in a helicopter crash near Charlottesville, Virginia, have been linked to a violent white nationalist rally earlier in the day. 
 
 It was not immediately clear how the crash was connected to the rally. Corinne Geller, a Virignia State Police spokeswoman, says the pilot and a passenger were killed in the crash Saturday afternoon. 
 
 The crash happened just a few hours after a car plowed into a crowd of people peacefully protesting against the white nationalist rally. One person was killed and at least two dozen were hurt. 
 
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 5:20 p.m. 
 
 The organizer of a rally that drew hundreds of white nationalists and other extremists to Charlottesville says he disavows the violence that eroded it. 
 
 Jason Kessler said in an interview Saturday evening that whoever drove a car into a group of counter-protesters "did the wrong thing." He said he was saddened that people were hurt. 
 
 Kessler is a local blogger and activist who described the event as a pro-white rally. He planned it to protest the city's decision to remove a Confederate monument. 
 
 He also criticized law enforcement's response to the event, which was dispersed before speakers could take the stage. 
 
 He said they did a poor job controlling the chaos to allow free speech. 
 
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 4:15 p.m. 
 
 A state official said the driver of a car that plowed into a group of marchers in Charlottesville is in police custody. 
 
 Virginia Secretary of Public Safety Brian Moran said the driver, a man, has been arrested. 
 
 Moran did not immediately provide a name of the driver. 
 
 Witnesses say a car plowed into a crowd of people who were protesting a rally, which was held by white nationalists who oppose the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee by the city of Charlottesville. Officials say one person was killed and at least 26 were treated at local hospitals. 
 
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 3:45 p.m. 
 
 A hospital official says one person has died and 19 were injured after a car plowed into a group of protesters in Charlottesville. 
 
 University of Virginia Medical Center spokeswoman Angela Taylor confirmed the death to The Associated Press. 
 
 The mayor of Charlottesville said via Twitter on Saturday that he is "heartbroken" to announce that a "life has been lost." He did not provide details. 
 
 Witnesses say a car plowed into a crowd of people who were protesting the rally, which was held by white nationalists who oppose the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee by the city of Charlottesville. 
 
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 3:20 p.m. 
 
 Officials say there are multiple injuries after a car plowed into a group of people marching peacefully in downtown Charlottesville. 
 
 Video of the incident shows a silver Dodge Charger crashing into a car where protesters were marching and then rapidly reversing away. 
 
 Michael Nigro, a photojournalist from Brooklyn, told reporters shortly after the incident he heard the screech of tires and saw a gray Charger accelerate toward the group. Several hundred people were peacefully marching through downtown. 
 
 Nigro says it was "chaos and mayhem" as bodies flew. 
 
 Officials didn't immediately release any further information and it wasn't immediately clear if anyone was in custody. 
 
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 2 p.m. 
 
 Authorities are on the scene after a vehicle plowed into a group of people marching peacefully through downtown Charlottesville. 
 
 An Associated Press reporter saw at least one person on the ground receiving medical treatment immediately afterward the incident. It occurred approximately two hours after violent clashes between white nationalists and counter-protesters. 
 
 The nationalists were holding the rally to protest plans by the city of Charlottesville to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. 
 
 There were several hundred protesters marching in a long line when the car drove into a group of them. 
 
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 1:40 p.m. 
 
 President Donald Trump is tweeting about the violence that has erupted amid a white supremacist march in Virginia. 
 
 Trump tweeted Saturday that "we ALL must be united & condemn all that hate stands for." He then wrote "There is no place for this kind of violence in America. Lets come together as one!" 
 
 The demonstrations began Friday in Charlottesville with white nationalists marching through town and while carrying lit torches. The demonstrators then clashed with counter-protesters. 
 
 Some of the white nationalists cited Trump's victory as validation for their beliefs. 
 
 The White House was silent for hours about the clashes except for a solitary tweet from First Lady Melania Trump. The president has received previous criticism for being slow to condemn acts of hate done in his name. 
 
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 1:35 p.m. 
 
 The organizer of a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville is encouraging attendees to leave town after authorities declared an unlawful assembly and police ordered people to disperse. 
 
 Right-wing blogger Jason Kessler organized Saturday's rally to protest the city's decision to remove a statue of confederate General Robert E. Lee. 
 
 Kessler told The Associated Press Saturday that he and other people who were going to speak at the event evacuated with security when police issued the order to disperse. 
 
 He says he wants rally attendees to leave town peacefully. 
 
 Richard Spencer is a prominent alt-right activist who was scheduled to speak. He says he's also encouraging people to go home. 
 
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 12:50 p.m. 
 
 First Lady Melania Trump is calling for peace after violent clashes broke out at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. 
 
 Trump said Saturday on Twitter: "Our country encourages freedom of speech, but let's communicate w/o hate in our hearts. No good comes from violence." 
 
 Hundreds of white nationalists and counter protestors faced off Saturday in downtown Charlottesville, with several violent clashes erupting. 
 
 It's the latest confrontation in the city since it voted to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a downtown park. 
 
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 12:35 p.m. 
 
 The NHL's Detroit Red Wings released a statement denouncing the use of their logo at the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and saying they are considering legal action to stop it. 
 
 The team says it "vehemently" disagrees with and is not associated with the event. The Red Wings add they are "exploring every possible legal action as it pertains to the misuse of our logo in this disturbing demonstration." 
 
 A Michigan-based white nationalist group called the Detroit Right Wings uses the Red Wings' logo. The organization posted on its Twitter account that members had arrived in Charlottesville. 
 
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 12:25 p.m. 
 
 Virginia's governor has declared a state of emergency in response to a white nationalist rally that is expected to draw up to 6,000 people. 
 
 Gov. Terry McAuliffe said via his Twitter account on Saturday morning that the declaration was made in order "to aid state response to violence" at the rally in Charlottesville, about 100 miles outside of Washington, D.C. 
 
 It's the latest confrontation in the city since it voted earlier this year to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a downtown park. 
 
 The city's manager also declared a local emergency and police ordered people to disperse from the area around the statue after several violent clashes broke out. 
 
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 Hundreds of people are facing off in Charlottesville ahead of a white nationalist rally planned in the Virginia city's downtown. 
 
 Rally supporters and counter-protesters screamed, chanted, threw punches, hurled water bottles and unleashed chemical sprays on each other Saturday morning. 
 
 Men dressed in militia uniforms were carrying shields and openly carrying long guns. 
 
 Right-wing blogger Jason Kessler planned what he called a "pro-white" rally to protest Charlottesville's decision to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a city park. Thousands of people are expected to pack the area. 
 
 There were also fights Friday night, when hundreds of white nationalists marched through the University of Virginia campus carrying torches. 
 
 A university spokesman said one person was arrested and several people were injured. ||||| 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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– US officials have opened a civil rights investigation into the deadly car attack that took place amid clashes of white nationalists and counter-demonstrators, reports the AP. The investigation was announced late Saturday by the US Attorney's Office for the Western District of Virginia and the FBI's Richmond field office. Attorney General Jeff Sessions says US Attorney Rick Mountcastle has begun the investigation and will have the full support of the Justice Department. Sessions says, "The violence and deaths in Charlottesville strike at the heart of American law and justice. When such actions arise from racial bigotry and hatred, they betray our core values and cannot be tolerated." In other developments: The man who allegedly plowed his car into a crowd of protesters, James Alex Fields Jr., a 20-year-old from Ohio, was charged with second-degree murder and three counts of malicious wounding, reports NBC 29. Troy Dunigan, a 21-year-old from Chattanooga, Tenn., was charged with disorderly conduct; Jacob L. Smith, a 21-year-old from Louisa, Va., was charged with assault and battery; and James M. O'Brien, 44, of Gainesville, Fla., was charged with carrying a concealed handgun. White nationalist Richard Spencer accused police of endangering lives in how they handled the rally, saying he "did not attempt to engage in any kind of violence. So the idea that I could be held responsible is absurd. It's like blaming the fire department for a fire." Spencer also said he found President Trump's comments on the violence to be "rather vague and kind of lame." Fields' mother says he told her he was going to the rally and that she told him "to be careful" and peaceful. Rally organizer Jason Kessler said whoever drove a car into counter-protesters "did the wrong thing." He said he was saddened people were hurt and criticized law enforcement's response, saying they did a poor job controlling the chaos to allow free speech.