Police in Danville, Va., stated Wednesday that they had been “investigating” after a metropolis council member was “set on fireplace.”
In line with the discharge, officers went late within the morning “to the 700 block of Predominant Avenue for a report of a male being set on fireplace.” They discovered that the person set on fireplace was Danville Metropolis Council member Lee Vogler, police stated later within the launch,
“The Danville Hearth Division and the Danville Life Saving Crew additionally responded to the scene to render help. The male sufferer was airlifted to a regional medical facility for remedy,” the police stated.
Vogler was confronted at his office and had a flammable liquid poured onto him by the suspect, 29-year-old Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes, in response to “witness data,” Danville police stated.
“The sufferer and suspect exited the constructing, the place the suspect then set the sufferer on fireplace,” Danville police stated.
Hayes faces prices of tried first-degree homicide and aggravated malicious wounding, the police stated in a later replace, and “is being held within the Danville Metropolis Jail below no bond.”