Taos Pueblo—a UNESCO World Heritage Site and National Historic Landmark about one mile north of Taos—is an ancient Native American city established by the Puebloan people between 1000 and 1450 AD.
The victim has been identified as 46-year-old Puebloan Steven Borowski following a Colorado Open Records Act request made by the Chieftain. Borowski's cause of death was listed as blunt force trauma.