Two Springfield police officers were stabbed in a Wednesday afternoon encounter with a person armed with two knives in the Gateway neighborhood before the suspect was shot and killed, according to Springfield police.

A man burst into an office in Danville, Va., where the councilman, Lee Vogler, was working, doused him with a flammable liquid and set him on fire, the authorities said.

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 suspect, Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes, allegedly confronted Danville City Councilman Lee Vogler, 38, at his office, at Showcase Magazine, and covered him with a flammable liquid, the Danville Police Department said. Both went outside where Hayes allegedly set Vogler on fire, police said.

Mamdani has faced backlash over his past comments critical of the NYPD following the city’s deadliest mass shooting in 25 years, where four people, including an off-duty police officer, were killed in Midtown Manhattan.