THIS IMAGE SHOWS a vehicle driven by a person suspected of setting fire and shooting at multiple Michigan State Police patrol vehicle at the Sault Ste. Marie post. No troopers were in the vehicles at the time of the attack. (Michigan State Police via AP)

SAULT STE. MARIE (AP) — Michigan State Police said Thursday they shot and arrested a 39-year-old Florida man in connection with four of the agency’s cruisers being set ablaze and shot at outside the post in Sault Ste. Marie.

A gunfight began while officers were executing a search warrant about 1:45 p.m. Thursday at a property in the Sault Ste. Marie area in the far eastern Upper Peninsula, said Lt. Mark Giannunzio, a state police spokesperson.

The suspect fired shots at troopers and the officers returned fire, Giannunzio said in an email. The man was hit and taken by ambulance to a hospital, he said.

The suspect’s name and condition weren’t immediately released. No officers were injured, Giannunzio said.

Police on Wednesday had described a suspect as a white male who was wearing camouflage in footage of the early Wednesday attack. He was considered armed and dangerous, the agency said in a plea for the public’s help in identifying him.

Security cameras captured footage of a man dousing the vehicles with gasoline and setting them on fire about 3:15 a.m. Wednesday outside the Sault Ste. Marie post, then shooting them with a rifle from a distance, Giannunzio said.

The attack happened in an area of the post that is easily accessible to the public, Giannunzio said Wednesday.

“He literally just pulls into the driveway leading into the post and that’s where those four vehicles were parked,” he said.