A former co-worker of Heather Heyer‘s recounted to People the tragic events of Aug. 12, when Heyer was killed by a driver who rammed his car into a group of counter-protesters demonstrating against a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Marissa Blair and her fiancé, Marcus Martin, along with Heyer and another friend, came to Charlottesville to protest neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan members and other white supremacists who had gathered. The four chanted “Racists go home” with other counter-protesters, but they kept their distance from the white supremacists, many of whom were armed with automatic weapons.
“We were scared...
Marissa Blair and her fiancé, Marcus Martin, along with Heyer and another friend, came to Charlottesville to protest neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan members and other white supremacists who had gathered. The four chanted “Racists go home” with other counter-protesters, but they kept their distance from the white supremacists, many of whom were armed with automatic weapons.
“We were scared...
- 8/21/2017
- by Diane Herbst
- PEOPLE.com
A GoFundMe account started for Charlottesville hero Marcus Martin surpassed its goal of $40,000 in less than 24 hours. Martin pushed his fiancée out of the way when a car, allegedly driven by James Alex Fields Jr., plowed into a group of counter-protestors, killing one person and injuring many more. Martin was injured himself during the attack. Martin was with his fiancée, Marissa Blair, when the car approached the group of counter-protestors and pushed her out of the way in a dramatic moment that was captured by a photographer from the New York Post. Also Read: Pressure on CEOs Rises as Fourth Trump.
- 8/15/2017
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
A woman was killed and at least 19 people were injured Saturday after a “Unite the Right” white nationalist rally drew attendees and counter-demonstrators into confrontation on the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia.
The woman, 32-year-old Heather Heyer, died after a car intentionally plowed through a crowd of counter-demonstrators as the rally broke up, authorities said.
That attack followed a Friday night march through the University of Virginia’s campus by hundreds of torch-bearing white supremacists who witnesses said chanted “white lives matter” and anti-Semitic slurs.
The deadly violence was the climax of a chaotic weekend that was initially stirred by a...
The woman, 32-year-old Heather Heyer, died after a car intentionally plowed through a crowd of counter-demonstrators as the rally broke up, authorities said.
That attack followed a Friday night march through the University of Virginia’s campus by hundreds of torch-bearing white supremacists who witnesses said chanted “white lives matter” and anti-Semitic slurs.
The deadly violence was the climax of a chaotic weekend that was initially stirred by a...
- 8/14/2017
- by Jeff Truesdell
- PEOPLE.com
If not for the heroic actions of her fiancé, a woman could have been seriously injured when a driver rammed his car into a group of protesters demonstrating against a downtown Charlottesville white nationalist rally Saturday afternoon.
Marissa Blair told The New York Times that her fiancé, Marcus Martin, pushed her out of the way of the oncoming vehicle. Although Blair walked away with just a scraped arm and a bruise on her leg, Martin attended the memorial service for 32-year-old fatal victim Heather Heyer in a wheelchair with a broken leg.
Blair, who was friends with Heyer and used to work with her,...
Marissa Blair told The New York Times that her fiancé, Marcus Martin, pushed her out of the way of the oncoming vehicle. Although Blair walked away with just a scraped arm and a bruise on her leg, Martin attended the memorial service for 32-year-old fatal victim Heather Heyer in a wheelchair with a broken leg.
Blair, who was friends with Heyer and used to work with her,...
- 8/14/2017
- by Stephanie Petit
- PEOPLE.com
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