According to the local news Times-Union, Catskill Village Police Department said Jason Jones, 29, walked into the police station and sparked a “confrontation with officers.” The man stripped his clothing off and doused himself with hand sanitizer. Chief Dave Darling, a former State Police senior investigator, said officers tased Jones to subdue him.
“I think they were afraid he was going to hurt himself, and that’s what started it,” Darling told the Times Union. “There are still details that we’re trying to develop.”
It was at that moment when Jones burst into flames. The local paper said he “is in an intensive care unit at Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse. His condition is grave, according to people briefed on the matter.”
Darling described the incident as “horrible” and said Greene County district attorney’s office is investigating what happened on Friday night, Oct. 29.
Jones’ attorney, Kevin Luibrand, told CBS 6, “his client is in a burn unit in Syracuse in a medical situation of the most serious type.
