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Liam Payne reportedly died while trying to escape from his hotel room

Liam Payne reportedly died while trying to escape from his hotel room

According to witnesses and the police report, the late One direction member Liam Payne He was reportedly trying to escape from his third-floor hotel room in Buenos Aries, Argentina, when he fell to his death .

As reported TMZ Sources say Payne had trouble feeling confined to hotel rooms due to his days touring with One Direction and had previously escaped through balconies. Surveillance screenshots from the CasaSur Palermo hotel where Payne died showed three employees carrying him to his room minutes before he fell from a balcony and died.

His bodyguard reportedly forced him into a room at a Florida rental property in September this year, fearing he was a danger to himself and others due to suspected drug abuse. Payne managed to escape from the balcony using a garden hose. Security footage from a Buenos Aires hotel showed him struggling with three employees who carried him to his room, making it clear he didn’t want to be stuck there.

According to the police call made by a hotel employee, the hotel was concerned that Payne might harm himself on the balcony. “I don’t know if his life could be in danger. He’s in a room with a balcony and, well, we’re a little scared,” we read in the transcript. When his body was found, he had a bag attached to it containing some of his belongings. Additionally, a hat was found near his body, and surveillance footage of him being taken to a room against his will showed he was not wearing it.

The police report states that he tried to go down to the second-floor balcony, below his room, because a leather bag was found there two days after his death. Inside the bag was a note “for Liam”: various unidentified pills and a bottle of whiskey.

Payne died at the age of 31 after falling and dying in a hotel. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Results from A partial autopsy showed that he had pink cocaine, crack cocaine and benzodiazepines in his system at the time of his death. Three people have it was arrested in connection with his death, including a friend, a hotel landlady and an alleged drug supplier.