Bureau of Land Management identifies Vadim Kruglov as man found ‘in a pool of blood’ on Saturday at annual festival
Law enforcement officials investigating a homicide at the Burning Man festival in Nevada have identified the victim, federal authorities announced on Wednesday.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which manages the Black Rock Desert national conservation area where the festival is held each year, said in a statement that the man who was killed on Saturday had been identified as Vadim Kruglov of Russia.
Officials launched a murder investigation over the weekend after a festival attendee found a man “lying in a pool of blood” and “obviously deceased” on Saturday, the final night of the event, and alerted police. The incident occurred between 8pm and 9.15pm, according to the BLM, as the festival was setting fire to a wooden effigy, known as the burning man.
Police cordoned off the scene as they investigated and interviewed “several participants in the immediate area”, said Jerry Allen, the Pershing county sheriff. Allen had asked for the festivalgoers’ help in identifying the victim and for accounts from people who may have seen anything between 8pm and 9.30pm.
