ABERDEEN, Wash. - An Aberdeen man is in critical condition after he was attacked and set on fire.

Forty-one-year-old Marlin Lee was dropped off early this morning at an Aberdeen hospital, and then transferred to a Seattle burn unit.

The Grays Harbor Sheriff's Office released surveillance video of Lee being dropped off at a hospital in Aberdeen.

Doctors think he had been cut, beaten and burned.

"He had suffered extensive burns to his body and had appeared to have some accelerants put on him," said Undersheriff Rick Scott, Grays Harbor Sheriff's Office.

According to investigators, shortly after Lee got in the emergency room, he collapsed.

All hospital staff could get out of him was that he got hurt somewhere between Hoquiam and Ocean Shores.

According to friends and family, he left his Aberdeen home with two women at 9 p.m. Monday.

They went to the Quinault Beach Resort and Casino in Ocean Shores and the women say Lee left without them just after midnight.

Four hours later, he mysteriously showed up at the hospital.

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"We'll have to act on the worst-case scenario, and that's that someone viciously attacked him and set him afire," said Undersheriff Rick Scott, Grays Harbor Sheriff's Office.

Loved ones say Lee was a friend to those who had no friends. He had opened up his Aberdeen home to the needy.

"He's just a buddy to everybody to have someone hurt him that bad… it's beyond belief,” said Deanna Kinkade.

Detectives were looking for the driver of the pick-up, a dark 1980s Ford with an extended cab and canopy. But Marlon Lee's friends weren't so optimistic.

"Someone to come forward? That's a big fat chance. I don't think they will… they already lit him on fire and beat him up,” said Jackie Coulter.

Detectives say it's possible the person driving that truck is a Good Samaritan who found Lee injured somewhere and took him to the hospital.

But Tuesday evening, the man who drove the victim to the hospital was identified. The Grays Harbor County Sheriff's Department says the man's wife asked him if he helped the victim after seeing what looked like his truck on TV. The husband said he found the victim in a ditch in the Copalis area and took him to the hospital.

Investigators are still looking for the people responsible.

Lee is at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle in critical condition.