Burning Man death prompts homicide investigation

A homicide probe is underway aft a antheral was recovered dormant lying successful a excavation of humor astatine the Burning Man festival connected Saturday.

A festival attendee alerted authorities to the antheral astir 9:15 p.m. section clip Saturday, astir the aforesaid clip the elephantine "Man" effigy successful the mediate of the venue was starting to pain — the event, held connected the second-to-last nighttime of the gathering, which gives the yearly arts and euphony festival its name.

When Pershing County Sheriff's Office deputies recovered the man, helium was "obviously deceased," the sheriff's bureau said successful a statement.

The sheriff's bureau said the victim, described arsenic a White man, had not yet been identified, and his assemblage was taken to the Washoe County Medical Examiner's Office.

"Although this enactment appears to beryllium a singular crime, each participants should ever beryllium vigilant of their surroundings and acquaintances," the sheriff's bureau said.

The sheriff's bureau noted the Washoe County Sheriff's Office was besides connected manus to assistance successful the probe and said determination would beryllium a "heavy instrumentality enforcement beingness until the country tin beryllium released." The festival is acceptable to reason Monday.

Burning Man has been held successful Nevada's Black Rock Desert annually since 1990, wherever tens of thousands of radical stitchery for the week anterior to Labor Day to make the impermanent Black Rock City.

The Black Rock Desert is simply a dried water furniture successful a distant country of northwestern Nevada, astir 150 miles from Reno.  

In 2023, one idiosyncratic died amid dense rainfall that caused terrible flooding during the event. Over 70,000 radical were stranded for respective days arsenic the festival's operations were halted and roads into and retired of the lawsuit country were closed.