The four-term councilman suffered second- and third-degree burns covering up to 60% of his body, mostly on his torso, after alleged assailant Shotsie Michale Buck Hayes barged into Vogler’s workplace, drenched him with a five-gallon jug of fuel, chased him outside and then torched him.

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

Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes, 29, was taken into custody on Wednesday and charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated malicious wounding, according to ABC 13 in Virginia, after the attack on Vogler, a Danville City Councilman. Hayes is being held at the Danville City Jail without bond.