The news of the death of former One Direction member Liam Payne has shocked audiences around the world. The 31-year-old singer is believed to have fallen from the third-floor balcony of the CasaSur Palermo hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina on the evening of October 16 (local time), leading to his death. The cause of Liam Payne’s death has not yet been announced.

Hotel staff made two distress calls when they saw a guest high on drugs and losing control.
However, according to the latest update from the Daily Mail, the CasaSur Palermo hotel staff made two panicked calls to 999 (Emergency Medical Response Service), requesting emergency assistance before the incident happened. In the first call, the hotel staff panicked and said: ” We have a customer who is high on drugs, he is destroying everything in the room. Someone please come and help us”. This call was then abruptly cut off.
In the second call, a panicked hotel employee said: ” I’m not sure if the guest’s life is in danger or threatened. The room has a balcony and we are concerned that he may commit negative acts. Please send an emergency medical team here immediately.”

The media questioned the guest as Liam Payne.
Media are questioning whether the guest mentioned by CasaSur Palermo hotel staff in the 999 call was Liam Payne. Police have previously said that the singer was under the influence of alcohol or drugs when he fell from the balcony and died.
Images of the chaotic room, believed to be where Liam Payne was staying before his death, are currently circulating on social media. The scene shows a messy living room with many broken objects, including a broken TV screen.

The room believed to be where Liam Payne died.
On the desk in the room, police found a soap box, matches, candle residue, tin foil, a lighter, a burned soda can lid, and a powder suspected to be cocaine. In the bathtub, police found more candle residue and tin foil, along with suspicious burn marks and stains. These details matched hotel staff reports of guests being high on drugs and destroying furniture in the room.
Liam Payne arrived in Argentina with his girlfriend on September 30. However, his girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, left Argentina on October 14. On October 16, hotel staff called 911 to report a man being violent. According to witnesses, Liam Payne smashed his laptop in the hotel lobby and was carried back to his room.

Liam Payne and son.
Another heartbreaking detail is Liam Payne’s message to his 7-year-old son. On his 31st birthday in August 2024, Liam Payne shared about his son Bear Grey. He wrote: “I still haven’t received any socks from Daddy. I’m going to talk to my son, this makes me feel really hopeful.”
Liam Payne added: “God bless you. You’re all grown up now. You’re a big boy and you look like a mini version of me. Like we need another version of me in the world.”