Thirty-three-year-old Shane Billingham died Thursday night at the Burning Man festival in Nevada. Police consider his death 'suspicious.'
Thousands of people head into Nevada's Black Rock Desert every year to attend the Burning Man Festival. Burners, as they are called, take part in a week's worth of community, inclusion, public artwork and radical revelry. But the 2019 Burning Man has been plagued by a number of unforeseen incidents, most recently the death of 33-year-old Shane Billingham on Thursday night, whose death police are calling"suspicious.
A dancer juggles fire as a 52-foot tall wooden man as it goes up in flames September 2, 2000 during the15th annual Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada. Despite high winds, dust storms, and a bit of rain, some 27,000 people camped out on a remote desert playa, or dry lake, for the week-long counter-cultural celebration of art and"radical self-expression". This year's theme was the body.
On Sunday night, there was a fatal collision just outside the Burning Man festival in Washoe County. Sixty-one-year-old Carson City resident Lonnie Richey drove over the centerline of a local road and fatally crashed head-on with an RV. Richey died from injuries sustained in the crash. The last death at Burning Man occurred in 2017, when a man ran into a flaming namesake effigy. The man, Aaron Joel Mitchell, 41, was pulled from the fire but was too badly burned. He was airlifted to the University of California Davis burn center in Sacramento where he was pronounced dead.
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