The Marion County coroner's office confirmed Monday that Sharp, 49, died of suffocation. His death was ruled a suicide. 
 
 Marvin L. Sharp. (Photo: Provided by Marion County Prosecutor’s Office) 
 
 Two months after Marvin Sharp was found dead in his Marion County Jail cell, officials have determined that the gymnastics coach died of self-inflicted asphyxiation. 
 
 The Marion County coroner's office confirmed Monday that Sharp, 49, died of suffocation. The manner of death was ruled a suicide. 
 
 Additional information about how Sharp suffocated himself was not immediately available. Calls have been placed to the Marion County Sheriff's Office for comment. 
 
 Deputies discovered the body of the Indianapolis man, who was being held on four counts of child molesting and three counts of sexual misconduct with a minor, at 8:17 p.m. on Sept. 19. 
 
 Police launched a criminal investigation into the USA Gymnastics 2010 Coach of the Year after complaints about his photo shoots of children surfaced. He was arrested on Aug. 24 after accusations that he fondled one of his 14-year-old gymnastics students were reported to police. 
 
 The 14-year-old, who had been a student of Sharp's for three years, said the inappropriate contact between her and her former coach happened during a number of photo and physical therapy sessions. Sharp also conducted photo shoots with other children, court documents said. 
 
 Thousands of child pornography images were found in Sharp's home and business as police served search warrants, court documents said. Before Sharp died, investigators were working to determine whether any of the images confiscated were produced by him. 
 
 A federal complaint said that Sharp had been receiving child pornography since 2005. In addition to his charges in Marion County, Sharp was charged by the U.S. attorney's office with knowing receipt of child pornography and knowing possession of child pornography. 
 
 According to Sharp's website, he coached at the national level for more than 25 years and opened Sharp's Gymnastics Academy in 2001. In 2011, he moved his school from a warehouse in the 5900 block of West 84th Street to its current Georgetown Road location. 
 
 Sharp coached Olympians Bridget Sloan and Samantha Peszek, who were on the U.S. team that won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Sloan also won national and world all-around titles in 2009 and was fourth on uneven bars at the 2010 World Championships. 
 
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 × Coroner: Indy gymnastics coach suffocated self in jail cell 
 
 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Dec. 21, 2015) – An Indianapolis gymnastics coach died by suffocating himself, the Marion County Coroner’s Office revealed Monday. 
 
 Two months ago, Marvin Sharp was found dead inside his cell at the Marion County Jail. The coroner’s office said Sharp died from asphyxiation and ruled his death a suicide. 
 
 Deputies found Sharp’s body in his cell on the evening of Sept. 19. He was being held on four counts of child molesting and three counts of sexual misconduct with a minor after authorities raided his northwest side home in August. Sharp, an accomplished gymnastics instructor, owned a gymnastics academy and coached Olympians Samantha Peszek and Bridget Sloan as well as several national and international teams. 
 
 During the August raid at Sharp’s home, authorities found a hard drive containing thousands of images of child pornography. The raid was launched after one of his former students told police that Sharp had fondled her during photo shoots and physical therapy sessions.
– An award-winning gymnastics coach facing disgrace and a long prison sentence suffocated himself in his jail cell, according to the Marion County Coroner's Office. Indianapolis resident Marvin Sharp, the USA Gymnastics 2010 coach of the year, was found dead on Sept. 19, weeks after his arrest on three counts of sexual misconduct and four counts of child molestation, and his death has now been ruled a suicide, WXIN reports. The coroner's office hasn't released details on what it calls a self-inflicted asphyxiation. The 49-year-old, who coached two female Olympians in 2008, ran a gymnastics academy that he opened in 2001. He was arrested after a 14-year-old female student reported him to police, saying he had touched her inappropriately during training and photo sessions. Investigators found thousands of child porn images at Sharp's home and academy and, before his death, had been trying to determine whether he produced any of the images, the Indianapolis Star reports.