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Unite the Right survivor, Heather Heyer friend Marissa Blair dies
MARISSA BLAIR | 1989-2024
Unite the Right survivor, Heather Heyer friend Marissa Blair dies
Blair survived the 2017 car attack that killed her friend and coworker. She spent her remaining years keeping up the fight against racism.
Hawes Spencer Sep 26, 2024
Because her fiancé famously pushed her away from a neo-Nazi’s speeding vehicle, Marissa Blair survived the deadly Unite the Right rally-turned-riot in Charlottesville in 2017. But the 35-year-old lawyer wasn’t able to escape the illness that claimed her life on Sept. 19.
“Gone way too soon and way too young,” Ruckersville resident Susan Bro told The Daily Progress. … “I’m eternally grateful to her,” Bro continued, “because she is the one who kept saying to everyone in the hospital, ‘Where is my friend? Have you seen my friend?’”
That friend was Heather Heyer, Bro’s 32-year-old daughter, who died in the 2017 car attack and became a symbol of anti-racist resistance. Blair’s entreaties, Bro said, helped medical personnel bring the necessary news to Heyer’s next of kin after the violence that took her life.
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A vehicle plows into a group of counterprotesters marching along Fourth Street Northeast in downtown Charlottesville, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. The group was protesting White supremacists who had descended on the city to protest the removal of its Confederate monuments.
RYAN M. KELLY, THE DAILY PROGRESS
Hawes Spencer (434) 960-9343 hspencer@dailyprogress.com @HawesSpencer on X
Unite the Right survivor, Heather Heyer friend Marissa Blair dies
Blair survived the 2017 car attack that killed her friend and coworker. She spent her remaining years keeping up the fight against racism.
Hawes Spencer Sep 26, 2024
Because her fiancé famously pushed her away from a neo-Nazi’s speeding vehicle, Marissa Blair survived the deadly Unite the Right rally-turned-riot in Charlottesville in 2017. But the 35-year-old lawyer wasn’t able to escape the illness that claimed her life on Sept. 19.
“Gone way too soon and way too young,” Ruckersville resident Susan Bro told The Daily Progress. … “I’m eternally grateful to her,” Bro continued, “because she is the one who kept saying to everyone in the hospital, ‘Where is my friend? Have you seen my friend?’”
That friend was Heather Heyer, Bro’s 32-year-old daughter, who died in the 2017 car attack and became a symbol of anti-racist resistance. Blair’s entreaties, Bro said, helped medical personnel bring the necessary news to Heyer’s next of kin after the violence that took her life.
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A vehicle plows into a group of counterprotesters marching along Fourth Street Northeast in downtown Charlottesville, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. The group was protesting White supremacists who had descended on the city to protest the removal of its Confederate monuments.
RYAN M. KELLY, THE DAILY PROGRESS
Hawes Spencer (434) 960-9343 hspencer@dailyprogress.com @HawesSpencer on X
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RIP Marissa (and Heather).