A man was found dead on Saturday in an alleged murder at the Burning Man Festival in the Nevada Desert.
The man, described as a white adult, was found “lying on the ground” and deceased after 9 pm on Saturday, said the Sheriff’s office of the Pershing County.
The discovery was made while the “man”, a great human sculpture in the form of a human in the center of the Black Rock City festival, was wrapped in flames. A participant marked the deputy of a Sheriff and reported having seen “a male subject in a pool of blood,” said the Sheriff’s office.
The deputies, together with the office management rangers of the office and the Black Rock Rangers rangers, created a perimeter around the area and interviewed the participants.
The authorities said that the identity of the man is unknown and that the body has been transported to the Washoe County Forensic Doctor’s office.
“Although this act seems to be a singular crime, all participants must always be attentive to their surroundings and acquaintances,” said the Sheriff’s office.
Police are preserving the crime scene, noting that the case is a “complicated investigation”, since the improvised city will disappear in the middle of the week. The annual festival began on August 24 and ends on Monday.
Any person with information about the homicide must communicate with the Sheriff’s office.
Burning Man said in a statement that he is cooperating with the police.
“If you are in Black Rock City, you do not interfere with the activity of application of the law,” said the festival. “The security and well -being of our community are essential.”
The Festival said that Black Rock Rangers can offer support services at the headquarters and advanced positions of the Ranger, and the Black Rock City emergency crisis support team is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at the stations.
Last week at the festival, which attracts tens of thousands of people from all over the country, a woman “spontaneously” gave birth in a RV camper to her and the first child of her husband.
The baby was born on August 27. Mother Kayla Thompson told the New York Times that she was asleep in the caravan when she began to experience a lot of “pain” and minutes later gave birth to a girl of 3 pounds and 9 ounces.
She said she didn’t seem pregnant and “had no symptoms” of pregnancy.
“Even hospital nurses said: ‘It does not seem that you were pregnant at all,” he said to the publication.
