A lawmaker from a Virginia city was hospitalized after being doused in gasoline and set on fire, according to the Danville Police Department.
A lawmaker from a Virginia city was hospitalized after being doused in gasoline and set on fire while at work on Wednesday, according to the Danville Police Department (DPD).
In a post on Facebook, the DPD revealed that the suspect, who was identified as Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes, 29, had been charged with “attempted first degree murder and aggravated malicious wounding” after he allegedly doused Danville City Councilman Lee Vogler “with a flammable liquid” and then set him on fire.
The suspect is “being held in the Danville City Jail under no bond,” the police department said in the Facebook post.
Officers from the DPD were dispatched around 11:30 a.m. after receiving reports of a male victim “being set on fire.” Vogler was airlifted to a “regional medical facility for treatment.”
“Based on witness information provided to officers at the scene, the suspect entered into the victim’s place of employment, confronted him and doused him with a flammable liquid,” the police department revealed.
