当巨型雕像“燃烧的人”在内华达沙漠中熊熊燃烧时，一名节日参与者走向了县警副手。
周六晚约9点14分，有民众报警称一名男子倒在血泊中。
当副警长与土地管理局的护林员在露营地发现这名男子时，他已无生命体征。
自那时起，调查人员便蜂拥至现场，在为期九天的火人节活动中收集证据并询问邻近的露营者。这场年度盛会每年吸引数万人前往里诺以北约120英里的荒漠地带，共同庆祝“社群、艺术、自我表达与自力更生”的精神。
珀欣县警长杰里·艾伦（Jerry Allen）在周日发布的新闻稿中表示，该死亡事件被认定为他杀。这名身份尚未确认的男性遗体目前存放在沃肖县地区法医办公室。
艾伦写道：“尽管这一行为看似是孤立案件，但所有参与者都应时刻对周围环境和熟人保持警惕。”
火人节活动主办方非营利组织“火人计划”在其官网声明中表示，正与执法部门密切合作，并已在现场配备同伴支持顾问。
去年，39岁的肯德拉·弗雷泽（Kendra Frazer）在火人节期间去世，急救人员未能将她救活。调查发现，弗雷泽因哮喘发作在睡梦中离世。
据《雷诺新闻报》报道，2023年，来自特拉基的利昂·里斯在音乐节期间失去意识后死亡。沃肖县地区法医办公室的初步调查显示，其死因疑似与药物中毒有关。
据《公报日报》报道，近年来该音乐节的其他死亡事件包括：2018年一名男子冲入火人节火焰中丧生，2014年一名女子被车辆撞击身亡，2003年另有一名女子遭车辆撞击致死，以及同年一架飞机在音乐节机场跑道降落时坠毁导致飞行员遇难。
在周六的悲剧性事件发生前，今年火人节曾因一名36岁女性意外诞下女婴而洋溢着惊喜。
这对夫妇表示，该女子直到周三早上在房车中分娩时，才意识到自己怀孕了。
附近的露营者中包括一名产科医生和其他医疗专业人员，他们匆忙赶来照料体重仅略超3磅的新生儿奥罗拉。在这个尘土飞扬、泥泞不堪的营地里，众人翻找出干净的毯子、生理盐水和其他急救医疗物资。
As the giant effigy of the Man burned in the Nevada desert, a festival-goer approached a sheriffs 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 Washoe County regional medical examiners office.
Although this act appears to be a singular crime, Allen wrote, all participants should always be vigilant of their surroundings and acquaintances.
The Burning Man Project, the nonprofit that organizes the festival, said in a statement on its website that it was cooperating with law enforcement and that peer support counselors were available on the grounds.
Last year, Kendra Frazer, 39, died at Burning Man after emergency personnel were unable to revive her. It was found that Frazer had died in her sleep after an asthma attack .
In 2023, Leon Reece of Truckee died at the festival after he was found unresponsive, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported. Drug intoxication was suspected in his death, according to a preliminary investigation by the Washoe County regional medical examiners office.
Other fatalities at the festival over the years included a man who ran into the Burning Man fire in 2018, a woman struck by a car in 2014, another woman struck by a car in 2003 and the pilot of a plane that crashed while landing at the festivals airstrip in 2003, according to the Gazette-Journal .
Before Saturdays grim discovery, this years Burning Man was punctuated by unexpected joy when a 36-year-old woman gave birth to a baby girl.
The woman was unaware she was pregnant until she went into labor in her RV on Wednesday morning, she and her husband said.
Neighboring campers, who included an obstetrician and other medical professionals, scrambled to tend to baby Aurora, who entered the world at a little over 305 pounds. They scrounged for clean blankets, saline and other emergency medical supplies in the dusty and mud-caked camp.