Liam Payne cause of death: Singer ‘jumped from balcony’: report

Liam Payne’s origin of decease has been revealed little than 24 hours aft the One Direction alum’s fatal autumn from the balcony of a Buenos Aires hotel, which section authorities accidental was a jump.

A medical-legal autopsy conducted aboriginal Thursday showed that the 31-year-old pop prima suffered polytrauma resulting successful some interior and outer bleeding, according to Argentine paper La Nación.

Payne sustained “a cranial fracture and highly superior injuries that led to his contiguous death,” Alberto Crescenti, caput of the Emergency Medical Care System (SAME), told the outlet.

Fans of British vocalist Liam Payne airy candles adjacent to the edifice wherever helium died successful Buenos Aires connected October 16, 2024. (Photo by LUIS ROBAYO/AFP via Getty Images)

Further details, including whether Payne had substances successful his system, are pending a implicit autopsy. The origin of the three-story autumn from the balcony of the CasaSur Palermo Hotel, wherever he’d been staying for aggregate days, is besides nether investigation.

Payne “jumped from the balcony of his room,” Buenos Aires Security Ministry communications manager Pablo Policicchio said successful a connection to The Associated Press and People aboriginal Thursday morning.

The Daily News has reached retired to the Ministry for comment.

Police and firefighters enactment the country astatine Casa Sur edifice wherever erstwhile One Direction subordinate Liam Payne reportedly died connected October 16, 2024 successful Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo by Tobias Skarlovnik/Getty Images)

In a call to exigency services conscionable aft 5 p.m. section time, minutes earlier Payne’s fatal plunge, a antheral who identified himself arsenic the hotel’s main receptionist reported that a impermanent was “high connected drugs” and “trashing the room.”

Upon being asked if the impermanent was being aggressive, the enactment was chopped off, earlier the receptionist called backmost and said the impermanent had “had excessively galore drugs and intoxicant and, well, erstwhile helium is conscious helium is trashing the full room.” The receptionist asked authorities to “urgently” nonstop idiosyncratic and said helium was unsure “whether his beingness whitethorn beryllium successful danger,” referencing the balcony successful the room.

(L-R) Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Liam Payne of the set One Direction be the Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 World movie premiere astatine Odeon Leicester Square connected November 11, 2010 successful London, England. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

At the clip of his death, Payne had reportedly been successful the South American state for much than 2 weeks. Payne and woman Kate Cassidy, who returned to the U.S. earlier this week, reportedly supported erstwhile bandmate Niall Horan astatine his Buenos Aires show on Oct. 2.

Payne and Horan antecedently were members of British lad set sensation One Direction on with Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik. Both Styles’ parent and Horan’s older member are among those who person paid tribute to Payne.

It’s unclear however Payne’s remains volition beryllium transferred to his autochthonal U.K., though the British Embassy successful Argentina told La Nación it is “supporting Payne’s household and … are successful interaction with the section authorities.”