James Alex Fields Jr. was convicted of first-degree murder on Friday for driving a car into counterprotesters at a 2017 Charlottesville, Va., rally and killing Heather Heyer.

The jury also found him guilty of five counts of aggravated malicious wounding, three counts of malicious wounding and one count of hit-and-run. He faces six potential life sentences for the murder conviction when sentencing begins Monday.

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Defense attorneys argued that Fields feared for his life and believed he was acting in self-defense.