You probably remember this photograph . . . it’s one of the more iconic of the awful images of the Nazi torch march at Charlottesville VA on August 11, 2017.
On August 12,2017, the man in the center was elated to see himself on the cover of papers across the county.
Today, I am pleased to tell you he is dead.
Teddy Joseph Von Nukem (yes, that’s his real name), one of the most prominent faces lit by the glow of tiki torches in what became the lasting image of the 2017 white supremacist Nazi rally in Charlottesville, killed himself as he was due to face criminal trial last month.
The 35-year-old skipped out on his first day of trial for a drug trafficking charge in Arizona on the morning of Jan. 30, according to court records. At the very moment a federal judge was issuing a warrant for his arrest, Von Nukem was actually still at his home in Missouri, where he had walked out in the snow behind the hay shed and shot himself.
The details were listed in an autopsy report obtained exclusively by The Daily Beast on Tuesday.
“Suicide notes were found at the scene, left for law enforcement and his children, however handwriting was somewhat inconsistent,” the coroner’s report states..