Unite the Right was slated to be a rally at Emancipation Park in protest of the city’s decision to remove its statue of Robert E. Lee. In addition to Cantwell, other would-be speakers included UVa alumnus Richard Spencer and Tim Gionet, who goes by the moniker Baked Alaska.

David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader, was in attendance Aug. 12, as well.

The rally was scheduled to begin at noon, but an unlawful assembly was declared shortly before after ralliers and counter-protesters clashed in the streets that morning.

Later that afternoon, area resident Heather Heyer was killed near the corner of Fourth and Water streets after a car plowed into a group of counter-protesters. James Alex Fields Jr., of Ohio, was later arrested and charged with second-degree murder.

In addition, Fields, 20, is charged with three counts of aggravated malicious wounding, five counts of malicious wounding and one count of hit-and-run.

A few hours after the deadly car incident, two Virginia State Police troopers, Jay Cullen of Midlothian and Berke Bates of Quinton, who had assisted in law enforcement’s rally response, died in a helicopter crash in Albemarle County.

Anyone with information on the incidents at UVa on Aug. 11, including eyewitness accounts, is asked to contact police at (434) 924-7166 or police@virginia.edu.

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