Field's rage-fueled journey to Charlottesville

Fields' rage-fueled journey from Boone County to Charlottesville

Washington Post has done a lengthly article on James Fields Jr, who
grew up in Boone County

FLORENCE -- Boone County, the Kentucky suburb where Fields grew up, is a heavily Republican expanse of middle-class America layered with strip malls and look-alike subdivisions just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati.

Trump won 68 percent of the Boone vote.

The county’s biggest city is Florence, a bedroom community of 32,000 residents. There, in 2005, Samantha Bloom bought a condo in Meadows at Farmview, a complex of gabled, multistory brick dwellings built in a vaguely Tudor style. James, her only child, was 8 at the time.

They lived on Mistflower Lane. In an interview last week, one of their former neighbors, Adolph Dunsing, 91, a retired Marine who served in the South Pacific during World War II, recalled sitting on his second-floor balcony more than a decade ago, watching the boy play by himself in a parking lot.

“The kid had a two-wheeler bicycle, and he used to ride it back and forth out there,” Dunsing remembered. There seemed to be few if any other youngsters who were James’s age.

“I felt sorry for the kid,” Dunsing said. “He looked like he was always lost. Always quiet and always alone.”

If James was not already a disturbed child, he would soon become one. For Bloom, a single mother, the anger roiling in her son and his eventual outbursts of violence were just the latest in a litany of personal travails dating to her own youth.

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