The Transportation Security Administration officer who died Saturday after jumping from a balcony inside Orlando International Airport has been ruled as an intentional act, not an accidental fall as TSA initially described it.
“The death at OIA has been confirmed, by the Medical Examiner’s Office, to be a suicide. The police investigation is a suicide investigation,” an Orlando police spokesman wrote in an email to the Washington Examiner Monday afternoon.
Officer Robert Henry, a 36-year-old man, jumped from an indoor hotel balcony onto passengers who were an unspecified number of floors below waiting in security checkpoints lines. Chicago Police Public Information Officer Sgt. Eduardo Bernal said the investigation is still ongoing.
Orlando police issued a statement Saturday that said the man jumped from the Hyatt Regency Hotel balcony into the atrium of the airport around 9:30 a.m. local time. Police on scene said the man was in critical condition and was taken to a local hospital where he later died.
TSA confirmed the person died as a result of the incident, but said initially that the off-duty officer “fell.”
The officer’s death was among three reported in the Department of Homeland Security last week.
