An Ohio man accused of driving his car into a crowd of protesters in Virginia last year and killing a woman has been charged with federal hate crimes.
James Alex Fields Jr already faced charges murder and other charges at the state level in Virginia. He has been held in jail without bail.
Prosecutors say he deliberately drove into a group of people who gathered to protest a white nationalist rally.
Graphic video of the incident was widely shared on social media.
Heather Heyer, 32, who was demonstrating against the 12 August event, was struck and killed and dozens of others were injured.
Mr Fields, 21, was charged on Wednesday with 29 counts of hate crime acts, including causing injury and involving an attempt to kill.
Federal prosecutors allege that Mr Fields thought about harming others while driving to Charlottesville last summer.
The indictment also found evidence on Fields' social media of the suspect “expressing support of the social and racial policies of Adolf Hitler and Nazi-era Germany, including the Holocaust”.
He joined in on racist, anti-Semitic and white-supremacist chanting,…
