(AP) – A preliminary hearing scheduled for Monday has been delayed in the case of a 23-year-old man charged with dousing a black man with rubbing alcohol and setting him on fire.

Morris County Attorney Laura Allen said attorneys for Isaac Wilson had asked that the hearing be delayed. It is rescheduled for Nov. 18.

Fifty-four-year-old Sterling Law suffered second-degree burns to his stomach and upper legs during the Oct. 7 attack at his home in Council Grove, about 65 miles southwest of the Kansas capital of Topeka.

Federal prosecutors have agreed to review the case and potentially file hate crime charges.

Sterling Law’s brother has said his brother remembers the attackers using racial epithets when they broke in his home. Glenn Law said his brother has a “diminished mental capacity.”