The Nevada Bureau of Land Management has identified the victim of a possible homicide at the Burning Man festival.
In a statement shared on social media on Wednesday, Sept. 3, the NBLM confirmed the man was Vadim Kruglov of Russia. He was 37 years old and lived in Tacoma, Wash.
A Pershing County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) deputy was alerted on Saturday, Aug. 30, around 9:14 p.m. local time, after finding Kruglov lying in “a pool of blood,” as the festival’s symbolic “Man” wooden effigy began to burn, according to a prior press release from Sheriff Jerry Allen. His body was taken to the Washoe County Medical Examiner’s Office…