Torch-wielding southwest Missouri man in 2017 Charlottesville photo dies before trial date

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Teddy Von Nukem, a southwest Missouri man featured prominently in photos from the infamous 2017 Charlottesville white-supremacist rally, died Jan. 30 this year, the same day he was scheduled to go trial for allegedly trafficking fentanyl across the Mexico border.

Photographed wearing a black shirt, with his mouth open and a tiki torch in hand, the Lebanon native's face went viral as he marched at the front of the 2017 protest against the removal of confederate statues. The Unite the Right rally garnered national attention because it was organized by a conglomeration of white supremacist, alt-right, neo-Nazi and pro-Confederate groups and resulted in the murder of counter-protestor Heather Heyer.

Speaking to the News-Leader at the time, Von Nukem said he supported then-President Trump but was not associated with the far-right groups that organized the rally.