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Were ever filed. a lot to sort through this morning. nbc correspondent maya rodriguez. what more can you tell us about the suspect's background in terms of what we've learned about his identity? >> well, as you mentioned, fields did have his first court appearance yesterday. he did appear via video conferencing wearing that black and white inmate jumpsuit. he was denied bond, as you mentioned. we know that he had joined the army several years ago, but he did not complete basic training. they released him because he did not meet their training standards. he also worked as a security guard in oh...

Apparently someone in the public defender's office has a connection to what happened saturday and, therefore, the judge viewed it as a potential conflict and picked another attorney. we've tried to reach out to that attorney, charles weber. knocked on his door, called him. he hasn't gotten back to us. interesting information we've gathered overt weekend. learned from justice department officials familiar with the civil rights investigation into the case that officials feel they may have enough evidence to be suspicious that fields may have been trying to send some kind of broader message on sa...

Couldn't afford a lawyer. a picture now emerging of a troubled young man with strong white supremacist views, according to those who knew him. >> he had some very radical views on race. he was very infatuated with the nazis, with adolph hitler. he had a huge military history, especially with german military history in world war ii, but he was pretty infatuated with that stuff. >> reporter: fields' mother knew her son was traveling to virginia but was unclear of the reason. >> i didn't know it was white supremacist. i thought it had something to do with trump. >> reporter: fields enlisted in th...

He failed to meet training standards. we also know now he's been charged with second-degree murder. they have been criticized by some, but the governor of virginia, terry mcauliffe is defending the response, and conversation the armed protesters had protester, in some instances had bigger guns. full trajz patterns, i was a cub reporters back then, and we know each other. i'm so sorry, under the circumstances. i know you are retired, not on the inside of the conversations

Afford a lawyer. a picture emerging of a troubled young man with white supremacist views. >> he had radical views on race. he was very infatuated with the nazis, with adolf hitler. he also had a huge military history, especially with german military history and world war ii. but he was pretty infatuated with that stuff. >> fields' mother said she knew he was traveling to virginia, but was unclear on the region. >> i didn't know it was white supremacists, i thought it had something to do with prom. >> he enlisted in 2015, according to documents. he reported for basic training, was released from...