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.

A Danville, Virginia, councilman has been airlifted to a medical facility after being set on fire, according to officers with the Danville Police Department. On Wednesday, around 11:30 a.m., officers said they were dispatched to the 700 block of Main Street for a report of a male being set on fire.

Lee Vogler, a city council member in Danville, Virginia​, was set on fire by a man who entered the office of a local magazine where he worked, police said Wednesday.