(CNN) — A suspect is in custody after a Danville, Virginia, City Council member was set on fire Wednesday morning by a man police say he knows.

The attack “stems from a personal matter not related to the victim’s position on the Danville City Council or any other political affiliation,” police said in the statement.

The suspect, who police identified as 29-year-old Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes, entered Lee Vogler’s place of employment, confronted him and doused him with an unknown flammable liquid, Danville police said in a news release.

Andrew Brooks, the publisher and owner of Showcase Magazine, said Vogler was attacked at the magazine’s office.

The man “forced his way into our office carrying a five-gallon bucket of gasoline and poured the gasoline on Lee,” Brooks said in a social med

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