Police say a man who doused a Virginia city councilman in gasoline and set him on fire told investigators he wanted the attack to be fatal.

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,

A city councilman in Virginia was seriously injured Wednesday when a man stormed into his office at a local magazine, doused him in gasoline and set him on fire — an attack that authorities say was rooted in a personal dispute,