Homicide victim found at Burning Man, authorities say. Attendees are told to 'be vigilant'

As the giant effigy of the “Man” burned in the Nevada desert, a festival-goer approached a sheriff’s deputy.

A man was lying in a pool of blood, the individual reported about 9:14 p.m. Saturday.

When the deputy, along with rangers from the Bureau of Land Management, found the man at a campsite, he was dead.

Since then, investigators have been swarming the scene, collecting evidence and interviewing neighboring campers at the nine-day Burning Man festival, which draws tens of thousands each year to a desolate area about 120 miles north of Reno for a celebration of “community, art, self-expression and self-reliance.”

The death is believed to be a homicide, Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen said in a news release Sunday. The remains of the man, who has not been identified, are with the