{"id":19369,"date":"2025-10-28T01:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T01:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19369\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T01:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T01:58:10","slug":"disney-world-jumper-matthew-cohn-idd-as-aspiring-nfl-ref","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19369\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney World jumper Matthew Cohn ID’d as aspiring NFL ref"},"content":{"rendered":"

The third Disney World guest to die this month <\/a>has been pictured days after the aspiring football referee reportedly jumped from the 12th floor of a hotel.<\/p>\n

Matthew Alec Cohn, 28, died by suicide on Thursday at the Contemporary Resort hotel at the Orlando, Florida, attraction.<\/p>\n

Pictures on his Instagram show the native of nearby Winter Garden wearing his referee uniform, captioned with the hashtag \u201cPathToNFL.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matthew Alec Cohn was identified as the guest at Disney World who died after jumping off of a hotel last week. Instagram\/Matthew Cohn<\/p>\n

Cohn was an aspiring NFL referee. Instagram\/Matthew Cohn<\/p>\n

\u201cBig-time players, make big-time plays,\u201d he wrote in the caption under his last post, shared in September 2024 showing him blowing a whistle as a player steps into the end zone.<\/p>\n

The Instagram account has since been made private.<\/p>\n

Cohn was living in Los Angeles for several years, and appeared to be trying to make it as a musician.<\/p>\n

A SoundCloud account with matching personal details has links to a number of tracks.<\/p>\n

Cohn jumped from the 12th floor of the Contemporary Resort hotel at DIsney World. Ron Buskirk\/imageBROKER\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Police at the scene of the suicide at the Contemporary Resort. Tiktok\/aiotfamily<\/p>\n

He also features in Instagram posts for a self-styled \u201calternative Christian\u201d band called New Shepards.<\/p>\n

A second Instagram account for Cohn based out of Los Angeles remains open.<\/p>\n

After leaving LA, he briefly lived in Nashville, before records show he moved back in with his parents in the suburbs of Orlando last year.<\/p>\n

He hadn\u2019t posted on social media for over a year before his death.<\/p>\n

Cohn (left) pictured with his mother Betsy and brother Michael. Instagram\/Matthew Cohn<\/p>\n

Last Wednesday night, he checked into the Contemporary Resort hotel and paid for a room with cash, before jumping from the 12th floor the following day,\u00a0the US Sun reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cohn, who was also a high school lacrosse athlete, died of \u201cmultiple traumatic injuries,\u201d an Orange County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office spokesperson told The Post.<\/p>\n

The death was ruled a suicide, the second at the Contemporary Resort hotel this month.<\/p>\n

Cohn seen with a friend at an NFL game. Instagram\/Matthew Cohn<\/p>\n

Cohn had recently moved back in with his parents in Florida after briefly living in Los Angeles. Instagram\/Matthew Cohn<\/p>\n

Disney super fan Summer Equitz<\/a>, 31,\u00a0died after flying to Florida from her home in Naperville, IL without telling her family.<\/p>\n

Her body was found on Oct. 14.<\/p>\n

Last Tuesday, a\u00a0second guest died at Walt Disney World Resort<\/a>, less than a mile from the Contemporary Resort.<\/p>\n

Summer Equitz was found dead at the Florida theme park on Oct. 14. facebook\/summer.equitz<\/p>\n

The man in his 60s, who has not been named, died after reportedly experiencing a medical episode at the Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground section of the park, according to the OCSO.<\/p>\n

If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts or are experiencing a mental health crisis and live in New York City, you can call 888-NYC-WELL for free and confidential crisis counseling. If you live outside the five boroughs, you can dial 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline or go to\u00a0SuicidePreventionLifeline.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The third Disney World guest to die this month has been pictured days after the aspiring football referee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9479,3640,9,11,10,9418,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-19369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-disney-world","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-orlando","14":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}