Maybe wait a day or two.

too many speculations online
I have seen tons of right wingers saying it was a false flag

The truth will out. I am going to have another cocktail then a bite of dinner.

They will. Soon.

might not have been the driver. The car could have been borrowed or stolen, or the license plates stolen. If a name is identified on the basis of DMV records they might not have been involved at all, and there is a danger of unfairly involving an innocent person. Let's wait until the police have identified the person in custody.

I hadn't thought about someone else possibly driving someone elses car.

I guess that's why nothing has been released. I was surprised it wasn't with the plate so visible.

Now the twitter chatter is saying that name was wrong - and there is a new name.

Twitter is saying the current owner is a James Alex Fields

Whether or not he was the driver...

Glad they caught the guy - that's for sure.

Lesson learned.

It might not be the registered owner of the car.

We've become a nation of immediate gratification morons.

Good, that won't be used as an excuse for pure evil and hatred.

In fact, they may have put the guy whom they had mistakenly identified on a watchlist regardless, "just in case."

They can be stolen, or someone else driving or even a stolen vehicle. That is a few reasons that could take longer.

and at that point, they'll have to identify him.

In the meantime, everything is from a rumor mill. Take it with a ton of salt.

I've mostly just been reading some here and there online and tuning in to cable news sporadically, but it seems so unusual for the "news" to not be showing pictures or footage of the apprehension of the suspect. No talk, really at all of the "who" just that it's happened.

I knew someone would find it. I think even if you go to Whitepages.com to try and find a phone number for someone you know, it links to those websites that will pull public records for a price. I've never used them, but knew it could be done.

I guess it just says who owns the car but not definitively that this person was driving it. I guess we'll know soon enough.

The car or the plates could have been stolen; the car could have been borrowed; he could have sold it and the title hadn't transferred yet. Let's wait and see who the driver really was.

The car is registered to 20-year-old James Alex Fields of Ohio, according to vehicle registration records reviewed by The Washington Post. Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail Superintendent Martin Kumer told The Post that a man with the same name and age was booked Saturday on suspicion of second-degree murder, malicious wounding, failure to stop for an accident involving a death, and hit and run. Kumer said Fields is being held without bail.

https://everipedia.org/wiki/james-alex-fields-jr/

Registered Republican

I noticed that in the Twitter feed and checked the photos and videos- no sun/moon roof on the car that hit the people.

Check the videos at this site posted in another DU thread:
http://ir.net/news/politics/126763/breaking-raw-video-footage-car-plowing-anti-kkk-protesters-virginia/

Don't post anyone's private or personal information
Don't post private or personal information about any person (including public figures) even if that information is available elsewhere on the Internet.

Maybe it depends on the state, I thought public access to vehicle registrations was discontinued
ages ago because of what happened to Rebecca_Schaeffer...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Schaeffer#Aftermath

You can request it but these are the people who can access the records.

When I read "public record", it makes it sound like anyone can look it up, request it
and get the info.

I looked to see if license plates are public record and came across this website. I put in my license plate number and state and it found it but I would need to pay $2.95 to get the file. Not sure if it will actually provide it because I don't want to pay for it. But I'm sure people do.

http://vehiclerelatedrecords.com/

From my own personal experience, one could simply go to any RMV (this was in MA), request that info
without providing any ID, and get it within minutes; they also had a reading room of sorts with volumes
of records printed on the old dot matrix paper where one could look up the info on their own.

It was also no problem walking into any police station, give them the plate number and some BS
excuse (hit and run in a parking lot), and the person at the desk would hand it to you.

Granted, this was 35 years ago, but it's wise and unnecessary that that info should be easily accessible.

expected he'd have to die for his cause.

Charlottesville police are charging him with criminal homicide. The chief went out his way to thank all the witnesses who provided pictures and video.

Booked for murder,

20 year old angry looking white boy

I don't hear a lot on Toledo news about white nationalists, alt right or kkk rallies. Maybe there's not enough of them to do a lot of harm. But sadly if it was him he's only a month older than my grandson now his life is ruined getting involved in something like this. How can anyone think this is okay?

Still no other news about him.