Three Dead in Virginia

The man in what looks like a black-and-white checkered shirt is James Alex Fields Jr., 20, who is seen in a mugshot released by Charlottesville, Virginia police department. Law enforcement handout. (It turns out this is the uniform for the Charlottesville inmates.)

Fields is from Maumee, Ohio.

Note Fields' license plate number: GVF 1111.

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Maumee is a form of the name Miami, from Myaamia, meaning "a downstream person."

The place name, in various forms, due to borrowing from indigenous peoples and the French, such as Miami and Maumee, is found throughout the Midwest, USA.

The great Fortean, editor of the Fortean Society's Doubt, Theodore Dreiser wrote in 1900 his famous novel, Sister Carrie, in Maumee, Ohio's The House of Four Pillars. It was built in 1835 and altered to Greek Revival Style in 1844. Dreiser acquired it in 1899. The house possesses most of the features typical of the American "classic temple" including four Doric columns rising the full length of the structure. In 1967 the house is owned by the William M. Hankins family.

Dreiser also wrote An American Tragedy (called in later films, A Place in The Sun), and the anti-lynching novel, Nigger Jeff.

Maumee, Ohio, is known as the birthplace of Henry Ware Lawton (March 17, 1843 – December 19, 1899). Lawton was a highly respected U.S. Army officer who served with distinction in the Civil War (Medal of Honoree), the Apache Wars, the Spanish–American War and was the only U.S. general officer to be killed during the Philippine–American War. 

The city of Lawton, Oklahoma (the reported location of hairy hominoid sightings in the 1970s), takes its name from General Lawton, as does a borough in the city of Havana. Lawton is credited as the army leader who pursued, captured, and transported Apache leader Geronimo.

During the Battle of Paye, Henry Ware Lawton, as usual, was in the midst of the fighting and was killed by a Filipino sharpshooter, coincidentally under the command of a general named Licerio Gerónimo. He was the highest ranking American officer to fall in battle in either the Spanish-American or Philippine-American wars.

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Lawton, in tall hat, with B Troop, 4th Cav. on route with Geronimo to Florida, 1886.

Also associated with Maumee, Ohio, is Theodore Dreiser, a well-known Fortean and political radical thinker and writer. He was editor of Doubt, the journal of the 1930s' Fortean Society. He also wrote Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy (known for the film A Place in the Sun), and the anti-lynching novel, Nigger Jeff.


Maumee, Ohio, is known as the home of two music groups:
Necros, one of the earliest US hardcore bands; and
Soledad Brothers, an American punk blues trio.

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The trouble in Virginia.

One person was killed and nineteen others were injured in Charlottesville, Virginia, after a car rammed through a group of counter-protesters who were demonstrating against an alt-right and white nationalists rally, on Saturday, August 12, 2017.

Charlottesville Police Chief Al Thomas said a 32-year-old woman, Heather Heyer, was killed and the suspect vehicle which fled was found moments later and a male driver was arrested.

White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" clash with counter-protesters as they enter Lee Park during the "Unite the Right" rally August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. After clashes with anti-fascist protesters and police the rally was declared an unlawful gathering and people were forced out of Lee Park, where a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is slated to be removed. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla)

The suspect being held in a Virginia jail in connection with a deadly crash near a scheduled rally of white nationalists was identified late Saturday, as James Alex Fields Jr., 20, of Maumee, Ohio, according to Superintendent Martin Kumer with the Albermarle-Charlottesville County Regional Jail.

Fields was being held on suspicion of second-degree murder, malicious wounding and failure to stop in an accident that resulted in death.

Pilots Lt. Jay Cullen, 48, (l.), and Berke M.M. Bates, 40, (r.), died in a helicopter crash while monitoring the violent clashes in Charlottesville, Va. (Photo: Virginia State Police)

The chopper was hovering low over houses before it went down roughly two hours earlier in a wooded area near the Birdwood Golf Course, the Daily Progress newspaper reports.