According to state police, former One Direction song Liam Payne was discovered dead at 31 on Wednesday after falling from a hotel rooftop in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Authorities said they are looking into whether his death was an accident or a death.
Alberto Crescenti, the director of Buenos Aires Emergency Medical Services ( SAME), confirmed Payne’s death to Argentine news station Todo Noticias. He said Payne died after a three-story drop from a rooftop at the CasaSur Hotel in the state’s Palermo area.
” At 17: 04 we were alerted through 911 about a man who was in the inner courtyard of the CasaSur Hotel”, Crescenti told the outlet. A SAME crisis team arrived a short while later to confirm the death of a man who we later learned was a member of a music group.
According to Crescenti, Payne was left with injuries he could not endure after falling roughly 45 feet.
He claimed that his skull had been fractured, but that a cause and manner of death would not be discussed until an examination was finished.
Shortly before Payne’s passing, according to a Buenos Aires safety ministry spokesman, police were called to the hotel for calls for” an aggressive male who could be under the influence of drugs or alcohol.”
Payne had been acting “erratically” earlier in the day, according to witnesses, who told TMZ, despite the fact that it was mysterious if any drugs were in his system at the time he passed away.
Payne’s British counterparts did not respond to a request for comment right away.
The pop star of England had recently spoken out about his issues with dosage and alcohol. In a 2021 podcast interview, he said his habit at one place got so bad he was having” extreme” suicidal thoughts.
Payne admitted to spending 100 times in a Louisiana rehab center and was almost six months sober in July of last year.
Payne’s death was apparently caused by his prolonged stay in Argentina. He attended a achievement by his previous bandmate Niall Horan in Buenos Aires earlier this month.
Solutions told TMZ that Payne’s girl, Kate Cassidy, had joined him for a holiday in Argentina but returned to the United States on Monday.
Payne leaves behind 7-year-old child Bear Grey, whom he shared with previous partner, English song and Television personality Cheryl Cole.
He’s also survived by his relatives, Geoff and Karen Payne, and two older sisters, Nicola and Ruth.
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