John Crane

Tina Cornely was sitting in her car, getting ready to go into the post office downtown when she saw police and emergency vehicles in front of the Showcase Magazine office building on July 30.

“Three or four people were patting someone down,” she recalled during an interview with the Danville Register & Bee at her home Aug. 13. “I thought someone had a heart attack.”

Little did she know at that moment that City Councilman Lee Vogler had been doused with gasoline and set on fire.

She also had no idea that the individual who would later tell police that he had poured the gasoline and intended to kill Vogler was Shotsie Michael Buck-Hayes, the man who had been living downstairs in Cornely’s basement apartment for the past four months.

During the interview, Cornely gave her impr

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