Pyramid Jumper Commits Suicide at Luxor Casino, Witnesses Say

Two firemen clearing the area where someone landed after apparently jumping to their death inside the Luxor on Friday. (Image: Facebook / Las Vegas Everyday People and Situations)

An unidentified victim of suicide reportedly jumped to his death from a high floor inside the Luxor hotel and casino resort in Las Vegas on Friday.

This first came to our attention from “Las Vegas Everyday People and Situations,” a public Facebook group with more than 80,000 members. 

Witness Reports

It was confirmed by a former poker dealer who posted a picture from the scene of two firemen clearing an area of the mezzanine where the man apparently landed. 

“I was there. He committed suicide from what I understand,” the commenter wrote. “That's what I was told anyway. So sad!”

Others who credibly claim to have been there tell Casinos.com the victim screamed as he fell and that patrons and employees could hear the yell and subsequent thud throughout the open atrium.

One woman said she was vacationing with her family and after witnessing the fall was trying to convince her young daughter that the man was going to be OK.   

Casinos.com reached out to MGM Resorts and the Las Vegas Metro Police Department, but did not hear back on Friday evening or Saturday morning. 

Paramedics reportedly performed lifesaving measures on the fallen individual, but were unable to revive the person. Police apparently roped off the part of the balcony where the incident occurred, though at this point we do not have information about which floor the victim fell or jumped from. 

Are Suicides Common at the Luxor?

Many commenters in the Facebook thread suggested that this sort of death "is a common thing" that happens “all the time” at the Luxor. Many contend that the shape of the building makes it a “suicide magnet” and that local media conspires to cover up such grisly deaths because it would be bad for business.

There is little evidence, however, of such unreported fatalities at the Luxor. And the existence of social media makes it seem unlikely that any such public deaths over the past 15 years would have gone unnoted.

Prior to Friday, there have been two known cases of gravity-assisted suicide at the Luxor. In 1996, a woman reportedly sat on a 26th-floor railing with her feet dangling over the side before jumping to her death. She landed at the entrance to the buffet, which has since been relocated to a lower floor. 

In 2001, Las Vegas Metro police confirmed (scroll halfway down) that a 33-year-old visitor from Colorado committed suicide at the Luxor. According to a witness, "a tall and heavyset man" took a “running leap from one of the interior balconies. He screamed as he jumped … almost doing a cannonball.” He landed near the registration desk, where he died.

There also was a man who fell to his death from the 10th floor in 2010 under undetermined circumstances.

And in 2018, a 20-year-old fell from the fourth floor at Luxor in an alcohol-involved accident. He survived as atrium decorations broke his fall. 

According to the Southern Nevada Health District, Las Vegas visitor suicides in recent years occur at a rate of about one a week. 

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