Liam Payne tragically passed away on October 16th at age 31. His cause of death might have been due to a fractured skull he sustained after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina via PEOPLE.
Liam Payne passes away
In a statement translated from Spanish, Alberto Crescenti (the head of SAME, Buenos Aires’ public emergency medical services system) told Argentine news channel TN that Payne fell into the hotel’s internal courtyard and had sustained “very serious injuries” during the fall.
“According to what the team saw, he had fractured the base of his skull,” Crescenti told the outlet.
He revealed to the outlet that SAME had been alerted to an incident at around 5 p.m. of a “person who was in the internal patio of the CasaSur hotel.”
He stated when they arrived, they found the man, later identified to be the One Direction singer, dead. “He had injuries incompatible with life as a result of his fall,” Crescenti continued to TN, adding, “There was no way to do anything.”
He stated that Payne, aged 31, fell from the third floor to the inner courtyard of the hotel where he was staying. He noted that the distance of the fall could have been between 13-14 meters (approximately 43-45 feet). Crescenti mentioned that an autopsy is being conducted to determine Payne’s official cause of death and that investigators were still trying to establish the details of what led to his death.
In a transcript of the 911 call from the CasaSur Palermo hotel to first responders, obtained by NBC News, a person informed them about a “guest” at the hotel who they presumed was “under the influence of alcohol and drugs” and was damaging a room at the hotel.
“We have a guest who is overindulged in drugs and alcohol and … Well, when he is conscious he breaks, he is breaking the whole room. Well, we need you to send someone, please,” the caller said.
In further audio obtained by Telemundo and NBC News, the caller said, “The guest is in a room that has a balcony and, well, we are a little afraid that he might do something life-threatening,” and added that the guest had been at the hotel for two to three days.
