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"It was really surprising, I mean I knew him," said his neighbor, Jacob Woessner.
"He just kind of blended in," said Ford.
But not everyone says this is a shock.
"When we covered World War Two and the rise of Hitler, he would say Hitler's views are right," said Derek Weimer, a history teacher who taught Fields at Cooper High School in Union, Kentucky.
Weimer says Fields was openly a Nazi sympathizer. He spoke in class about wishing Hitler had won and created a white supremacist empire. Weimar says hearing he is accused of being driver the this horrific and deadly crash is personal.
"I would challenge him to think a different way I always told him the U.S. has a multi-racial society. Throughout our history we had people from all different countries forging a national identity. I thought at times I got through to him, but obviously not," said Weimer.