A man was found dead Saturday night at Burning Man in an apparent homicide, the Pershing County Sheriff's Office said Sunday.

A number of deaths have occurred at or near Burning Man since the event moved to the Black Rock Desert in 1990. Among them:

Michael Fury, 1996: Michael Fury of San Francisco died hours before the 1996 event began, the seventh year it was held in the Black Rock Desert. Fury, riding on a motorcycle, was struck and killed by a van just outside the gates. The van was being driven by an acquaintance of Fury’s.

“They were kind of frenemies, chest bumping, ego, super competitive,” Burning Man co-founder John Law told the RGJ in 2016 .

“Michael was about a half mile ahead, driving around in circles around the van and then driving straight toward the van, kinda play

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