Man sets himself on fire outside Trump trial courthouse in New York

• A Florida man set himself on fire outside of the New York courthouse where a jury was being picked for the criminal hush money trial of former President Donald Trump.
• The man, identified by police as Max Azzarello, was taken to the Cornell Burn Center at New York Presbyterian Hospital, where he was in very critical condition and not expected to survive.
• "We do not believe he was targeting any particular person or any particular group," a New York Police official said.

A Florida man set himself on fire Friday outside of the New York courthouse where a jury was being picked for the criminal hush money trial of former President Donald Trump.

The man, identified by police as Max Azzarello, was taken to the Cornell Burn Center at New York Presbyterian Hospital, where he was in very critical condition and not expected to survive.

"His condition is not good, but of a right now he's still alive," a police official said of Azzarello, a St. Augustine resident who is in his mid-30s.

Azzarello ignited himself in an area across from Manhattan Supreme Court, which is cordoned off for protestors.

Police said he walked into the park area, opened a bookbag, and threw paper pamphlets onto the ground before pulling out a canister and pouring liquid that is suspected of being an accelerant, and then set himself on fire.

Ed Quinn, a freelance photojournalist who lives in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, said he was facing the courthouse when "I heard someone scream, 'He's going to light himself on fire.' "

"I see him dumping gasoline on his face, very deliberately," Quinn said, according to NBC News. "He had grey t-shirt on. It soaked his face. It soaked his shirt. Boom, he went up."

"Women were begging, screaming, put it out, put