A New Jersey dad was arrested on Friday after police found his sons body inside a burning vehicle behind a local high school, Sayreville police and Middlesex county prosecutors announced.

Authorities had initially responded to reports of a fire near Sayreville War Memorial High School around 10:45 p.m. Thursday night when a domestic dispute call, which a police press release described as related, came in. The female victim in the alleged dispute told officers that Manuel Rivera, 43, had left their home with their 9-year-old son.

At the high school, police found Rivera alive near his burning vehicle, the release stated. A deceased child was found inside Riveras car, which had been doused with gasoline and was engulfed in flames.

Manuel Rivera, 43, was charged with aggravated arson, murder, endangering the welfare of a child and desecration of human remains. According to police, Rivera had burns on his body and a self-inflicted wound, and was taken to a local hospital in critical condition.