Heather Heyer's mom filed a $12 million lawsuit against her daughter's killer to ensure he won't 'profit' from Charlottesville attacks

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Bro told Newsweek that, with this legal action, she hopes 'to send a strong message to others who would use murder as a hate crime.'

Susan Bro , mother of Heather Heyer, hugs a young woman near a makeshift memorial for her daughter Heather who was killed one year ago during a deadly clash, August 12, 2018 in Charlottesville, Virginia.The mother of Heather Heyer, a peace advocate who was killed in 2017 by a white supremacist at a right-wing rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against her daughter's killer in Virginia state court last week.

Earlier this year, Fields pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes charges and in June was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was previously convicted in state court of murdering Heyer, and received an additional life sentence in July from a Charlottesville Circuit Court judge. Fields marched with the neo-Nazi group Vanguard America at the rally and was filmed mouthing words alongside Vanguard members,A cellphone video capturing the murder shows Fields plowing his car into counter-protesters, flinging several people into the air and providing Heyer with the injuries that would ultimately take her life.

"We want to ensure [James Fields] does not profit from his crimes," she said."This is done in light of the examples of James Hinkley and Charles Manson."

 

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