{"id":183705,"date":"2025-07-31T16:52:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=183705"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:52:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:52:40","slug":"american-councilman-set-on-fire-in-front-of-colleagues-attacker-entered-his-office-and-doused-him-with-gasoline-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/american-councilman-set-on-fire-in-front-of-colleagues-attacker-entered-his-office-and-doused-him-with-gasoline-video\/","title":{"rendered":"AMERICAN COUNCILMAN SET ON FIRE IN FRONT OF COLLEAGUES: Attacker entered his office and doused him with gasoline! (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Danville City Councilman Lee Vogler was attacked by a man who poured gasoline on him and then set him on fire in front of the building where he works.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Vice Mayor of Danville, Virginia, James Buckner, confirmed to local media that Mr. Vogler was attacked and set on fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Please keep our colleague and our brother in your prayers,&#8221; Buckner stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attacker burst into Vogler&#8217;s workplace, assaulted him, and poured gasoline over him. Vogler then fled, with the assailant continuing to pursue him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately, he set him on fire in front of the magazine office where Vogler works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrew Brooks, the owner and publisher of the magazine, shared a video on Facebook detailing the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Brooks said the suspect was carrying a five-gallon gasoline can and poured it over Mr. Vogler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Lee tried to get away, he ran to the front of the building\u2026 The individual followed him and set him on fire,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Freel%2F753226864331174%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=267\" width=\"267\" height=\"476\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Danville Fire Department and Danville Life Saving Crew also responded to the scene to render aid. The male victim was flown by helicopter to a regional medical facility for treatment. At the time of this release, the full extent of his injuries is not known. Based on witness information provided to officers on scene, the suspect entered the victim&#8217;s place of employment, confronted him, and doused him with an accelerant. The victim and suspect exited the building, where the suspect then set the victim on fire,&#8221; the police statement read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The suspect fled the scene; however, information from witnesses provided a description of the suspect and his vehicle. Officers located and stopped the vehicle several blocks from the incident location, and the driver was taken into custody without incident,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver, Shotsy Michael Buck Heayz, 29, of Danville, was identified as the suspect in the assault and is currently in police custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Danville Police Department typically does not identify living victims in press releases; however, due to his public position as an elected official, the victim of this assault has been identified as Danville City Councilman Lee Vogler, 38, of Danville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Based on the investigation at the time of this release, the victim and suspect are known to each other, and the assault is the result of a personal matter not related to the victim&#8217;s position on Danville City Council or any other political affiliation. 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The Vice Mayor of Danville, Virginia, James Buckner, confirmed to local media that Mr. Vogler was attacked and set on fire. &#8220;Please keep our colleague and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":183706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7871,71,7872,23,115,15,5688,770],"class_list":["post-183705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america","tag-americki-odbornik","tag-amerika","tag-benzin","tag-sad","tag-ubistvo","tag-video","tag-virdzinija","tag-zlocin","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183741,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183705\/revisions\/183741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}