Bail denied for Charlottesville car attack suspect

The driver accused of intentionally plowing his car into counter protesters and killing one woman during a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend has been denied bail, the Associated Press reported Monday.

James Alex Fields Jr. of Ohio is charged with second-degree murder, malicious wounding and failure to stop in a collision that resulted in death. Federal officials have also opened a civil rights investigation into the incident.

Video footage shows a car ramming into other vehicles ahead of it into a crowd of counter protesters at the far-right event on Saturday, leaving scores of people injured.

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National security adviser H.R. McMaster on Sunday said the car attack was an act of terrorism.

“I certainly think any time that you commit an attack against people to incite fear, it is terrorism. It meets the definition of terrorism,” McMaster told ABC’s “This Week.”

Violent clashes had erupted in the college town on Saturday as white supremacist groups demonstrated against the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

President Trump has come under fire for his vague statement after the attack, in which he condemned hatred and violence that came from “many sides.”