Fields' Walk to McIntire Park Before He Drove To Fourth Street

At the pretrial hearing of James Fields, case agent Detective Steven Young was cross-examined by Fields' defense attorney Denise Lunsford. The cross-examination (transcript pages 32-43) indicated the following circumstances.

The main reason why why Fields traveled from his Ohio home to Charlottesville, Virginia, was to listen to and perhaps question someone (not identified) who was scheduled to speak at the Unite the Right protest there. Fields did not belong to the group -- called Vanguard America -- that organized the protest.

Fields parked his car -- and perhaps stayed overnight -- at McIntire Park and then walked to Emancipation Park (aka Robert Edward Lee Park). The walk from one park to the other takes about a half hour. After the protest turned into a riot, Fields walked with three other men back to McIntire Park, got into his car, and drove back to the vicinity of Emancipation Park.

The three other men -- who were questioned by investigators after the incident -- said that they did not know Fields previously and that he impressed them as being relatively moderate and mild-mannered compared to most of the Unite the Right protesters.

The men might be able to confirm whether or not Fields' shirt was wet with urine when he parted from them in McIntire Park.

The walk from Emancipation Park to McIntyre Park is shown on the following image from Google Maps.

The walk from Emancipation Park (aka Lee Park)
to McIntire Park

This walk makes it unlikely that Fields was supposed to drive onto Fourth Street at a certain time in a conspiracy.