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On the night of November 13, 2022, a mass shooting took place at the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which three people were killed and two others were injured. [1][2] Four of the victims, including the three who died, were members of the UVA football team. [3] The suspect, 22-year-old Christopher Darnell Jones Jr ...
July 1, 2024 at 8:59 PM. RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Four years after violence erupted during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, a jury ordered white nationalist leaders and ...
During the first 2024 presidential debate, Biden hit at Trump for saying there were “fine people on both sides” of the 2017 white supremacist rally in Virginia.
The August 11–12 Unite the Right rally was organized by Charlottesville native and white supremacist Jason Kessler [6] [50] to protest the Charlottesville City Council's decision to remove the Robert E. Lee statue honoring the Confederate general, as well as the renaming of the statue's eponymous park (renamed to Emancipation Park in June ...
The Charlottesville car attack was a white supremacist terrorist attack [ 12 ] perpetrated on August 12, 2017, when James Alex Fields Jr. deliberately drove his car into a crowd of people peacefully protesting the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one person and injuring 35. [ 4 ][ 13 ] Fields, 20, had previously ...
A man who carried a tiki torch during the racist "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 has now been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S.
Charlottesville is located in central Virginia along the Rivanna River —a tributary of the James —just west of the Southwest Mountains, a range which parallels the Blue Ridge about 20 miles (32 km) to the west. Charlottesville is 99 miles (159 km) from Washington, D.C., and 72 miles (116 km) from Richmond.
Albemarle County is a county located in the Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Its county seat is Charlottesville, which is an independent city and enclave entirely surrounded by the county. [2] Albemarle County is part of the Charlottesville Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 112,395.