Heather Heyer's mother speaks after Charlottesville car attack sentencing Susan Bro, the mother of Heather Heyer, spoke following the sentencing of an avowed white supremacist who in 2017 plowed his car into a group of people protesting the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing Heyer. James Fields Jr. was sentenced to life in prison on federal hate crime charges.