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Charlottesville car attack

vehicle-ramming attack in the United States
Event vehicle_ramming_attack Q36230388
Charlottesville car attack

Facts

16 properties
Instance of
vehicle-ramming attack, murder[4]
Country
United States[3]
Location
Charlottesville[5]
Part of
Unite the Right rally[6]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 38.029°, -78.480°[12]
Armament
Dodge Challenger[8]
Has effect
Heather Heyer Foundation[15]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Virginia[2]
Located in time zone
UTC−04:00[7]
Number of deaths
+1[13]
Number of injured
+35[14]
Number of perpetrators
+1[16]
Perpetrator
James Alex Fields Jr.[17]
Point in time
August 12, 2017, 2017[10][11]
Target
counter-protest[9]
Victim(s)
Heather Heyer[18]
🏷️ Also known as
en murder of Heather Heyer en Charlottesville car crash en Charolettesville attack en 2017 Charlottesville attack en 2017 Charlottesville car crash en 2017 Charlottesville crash en Charlottesville car attack cs Automobilový útok v Charlottesville de Anschlag in Charlottesville 2017 es atentado en Estados Unidos es Atentado de Charlottesville de 2017 fr attaque à la voiture-bélier à Charlottesville he פיגוע הדריסה בשארלוטסוויל id Serangan mobil Charlottesville ja シャーロッツビルの悲劇 ja シャーロッツビル自動車攻撃 ja シャーロッツビル自動車突入テロ事件 pt Ataque com carro em Charlottesville ru Наезд на толпу в Шарлотсвилле (2017) zh 2017年夏洛特威尔袭击事件
🔖 Identifiers · 3
Global Terrorism Database ID
201708120052
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/11fy2vh165
Quora topic ID
Charlottesville-Clashes-August-2017

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
murder, vehicle-ramming attack
Armament 1
Dodge Challenger
Belongs to 1
Unite the Right rally
Country 1
United States
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Virginia
Located in time zone 1
UTC−04:00
Location 1
Charlottesville
Part of 1
Unite the Right rally
Victim(s) 1
Heather Heyer
← Participant in 1
Heather Heyer
← Significant event 1
Unite the Right rally
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Summary

Charlottesville car attack is a vehicle-ramming attack[1].

Related Entities

United States Virginia

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 10w ago · Cmpz862 · 2026-08-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Point in time → —
    Coordinate location → {'latitude': 38.029491666667, 'longitude': -78.479525}
    Number of perpetrators → {'amount': '+1'}
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Virginia
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:1||1 */ Number of injured: 35"
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