The man accused of the deadly car attack in Charlottesville on Saturday had a history of violence dating back to 2010 when he was barely a teenager, according to police records, the Washington Post reported.
When he was just 13 years old in 2010, Alex James Fields Jr. struck his disabled mother on the head and put his hands over her mouth when she told him to stop playing a videogame.
The wheelchair-bound mother, Samantha Bloom, locked herself in the bathroom and called 911. The two were living in Florence, Ky., at the time.
“Scared mom to death not knowing if he was going to do something,” a 911 dispatcher wrote in the report.
In October 2011, Fields stood behind his mother brandishing a 12-inch knife. The day after that he spat in her face. He was taking medication to manage his temper, the mother said.
Bloom called the police the following month asking for help in taking her son to the hospital for an assessment. She said her son was “being very threatening toward her” and that she did not feel “in control of the situation.”
“Mom is scared he is going to become violent here,” a dispatcher wrote following the call.
Fields was arrested and held in juvenile detention following the call.
The man’s troubled past emerged as he appeared via video link at his first court session in connection to a car attack in Charlottesville on Saturday that killed one and injured 19 others.
