Council member Lee Vogeler burned more than half of his body after a sadistic attack

Member of the Virginia City Council Which was famous in a targeted attack He suffered from severe burns across more than half of his body at the hands of a obsessed man who claimed that he had begun to kill him, according to the police and reports.

The chilling attack – which the police said was a personal – left a member of the Danville City Council Lee Vogel with Burns covering up to 60 % of his body, most of him on his stem, Andrew Brooks, publisher of the Shawak Magazine, the local director where Paul works and works at all, and light, The New York Times was told Thursday.

Brooks said that the married father was expected to undergo two works in a hospital in North Carolina, and he was transferred by air to follow the horrific attack on Wednesday morning.

Vogeler’s wife, Blair, said her husband, the “fighter”, heals.

“As anyone who knows him expects, he faces this challenge in the same way that he faced every obstacle in his life – with courage, design and unbreakable spirit. I have a fighter,” she is a fighter. ” He said in a statement to the Southi News newspaper today.

“He devoted me to a decade of his life to serve the people of Danville. As his wife, I stood beside him during the highlands and declines, and I can bear witness to the integrity he serves. Behind the main headlines and general comments, there is a man who loves his family, his city, and his people.”

He claims that the crazy striker Swissi Michael Pak Hayes, 29, claimed that he has cleared the 38 -year -old Republican legislator with five gallons of gasoline and set fire to him because he was “his intention to kill him”, according to a criminal complaint. It was obtained by ABC.

Hayes, a resident of Danville, was accused of trying to kill first degree and exacerbated the wounded wound after he broke into the offices of the show magazine, Fujler, and then repelled him outside before setting fire to it, According to the Danville Police Department.

Broks said that many passers -by recorded the terrifying attack, but a passing woman told the burning Fujler to fall to the ground and roll before seizing bottles of water from her car to help extinguish the fire, the New York Times reported.

The news publisher, who was probably saved his life while other people stood by filming it, said, ” He released an emotional video on Facebook soon After he claimed that Hayes “forced his way” to their offices and targeted Vogeler, the sales manager in the monthly magazine.

Brooks and Showcase Magazine did not immediately respond to the publication requests for comment.

The alleged premeditated burning was arrested shortly after fleeing the terrible scene, while the youngest member of the elected council, Danville, identified his striker and was transferred to a nearby burning unit in Linchburg.

Police said that Voeller, who was elected in 2012 at the age of twenty -fourth, is known to each other, adding that the harsh attack stems on a personal issue that has nothing to do with the position of a member of the Council or political affiliation.

The court records indicate that Hayes’s wife submitted a slightly more than two weeks before the alleged attack, NBC mentioned. The couple in September 2023, According to their wedding site.

Hayes’s wife and her family cannot be reached immediately.

Hayes was called on Thursday and being detained without support in Danville City Prison.

His lawyer, Edward Lavado, refused to comment on the case.

Hayes is scheduled to return to the court on September 30.