Marvin Sharp
Marvin Sharp, 49, was a gymnastics coach who had trained Olympic athletes, and was named USA Gymnastics 2010 Coach of the Year. He was held at the Marion County Jail in Indiana, where he was found dead in his cell on September 19, 2015. The Marion County coroner's office said he died of asphyxia due to suffocation and ruled the manner of death a suicide. A former gymnast he coached, writing in Slate, remembered him as a coach who could coax difficult new tricks out of even less talented gymnasts.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The Marion County coroner's office ruled he died of asphyxia due to suffocation and classed the death a suicide.
Reported by: Marion County Coroner's Office (Chief Deputy Coroner Alfarena Ballew) (medical examiner or coroner).