A man who admitted to setting a Virginia city council member on fire over an alleged affair was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday.Shotsie Buck-Hayes pleaded guilty in April to attempted first-degree murder and aggravated malicious wounding over his attack on Danville City Council Member Lee Vogler.Witnesses told the court that on July 30, 2025, Buck-Hayes stormed into Vogler's Danville office and doused him with gasoline before chasing him out of the building and setting him on fire, according to Cardinal News.Commonwealth’s Attorney Michael Newman told reporters that Buck-Hayes spoke at his sentencing hearing and offered "what he claimed to be an apology" while maintaining that he was motivated by an alleged affair between Vogler and Buck-Hayes' wife, Mary Alice.ARIZONA EXECUTES MAN WHO KILLED VICTIM BY DOUSING HIM IN GASOLINE AND SETTING HIM ON FIRE IN 2002 ATTACKShotsie Buck-Hayes sits beside defense attorney Edward Lavado in the General District Courtroom during a preliminary hearing in Danville, Virginia, on September 30, 2025.(The Associated Press)Mary Alice filed for divorce in mid-July 2025, about two weeks before the attack, according to court records cited by Cardinal News.In September 2025, during the grand jury phase of the case, Sgt.
Gerrit Clay with the Danville Police Department testified that Buck-Hayes intended to kill the married father of two over this alleged affair, an accusation that has never been substantiated.'HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER' ACTOR NICK PASQUAL SENTENCED TO DECADES IN PRISON FOR STABBING EX-GIRLFRIENDBlair Vogler, the council member’s wife, testified that the attack left her husband with second- and third-degree burns across 60% of his body.After the attack, Vogler was immediately airlifted to the burn unit at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and spent months recovering.Danville City Councilmember Lee Vogler attends a city council meeting on October 21, 2025, the same day he was discharged from the hospital ...