The suspect, Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes, allegedly confronted Danville City Councilman Lee Vogler, 38, at his office, at Showcase Magazine, and covered him with a flammable liquid, the Danville Police Department said. Both went outside where Hayes allegedly set Vogler on fire, police said.

A suspect is in custody after a Danville, Virginia, city council member was set on fire Wednesday morning by a man police say he knows. The attack on council member Lee Vogler “stems from a personal matter not related to the victim’s position on the Danville City Council or any other political affiliation,