Liam Payne’s death: A hotel guest was traumatized when he saw Star’s balcony fall

Liam Payne””s painful death has left an eyewitness staying in the same hotel as the One Direction singer.

Brett Watson, who was a guest at the CasaSur Palermo hotel in Buenos Aires, recalls seeing Payne fall from the balcony in a clip from the documentary on Monday, December 16. TMZ InvestigatesLiam Payne: Who’s to blame?

“I was meeting with our wedding planner. We walked up to the room and happened to be looking out our hotel window,” Watson recalls. “We saw Liam fall.”

Watson said his room was on the first floor, adding: “We immediately ran to the balcony to see what it was and when we looked down we could see Liam lying on the floor. He landed face up so we could tell it was him and he was motionless.”

The eyewitness was visibly upset at the time Retrieve details From the incident.

“I don’t have a medical background but from what I saw it looked like he died as a result of the impact. Time stopped or slowed down instantly,” Watson continued. “Seeing anyone fall like that is heartbreaking, but being able to see it happen and hear the impact on the ground was even scarier than Watching him fall.”

He concluded: “Then seeing the direct consequences is something that is engraved in my mind and I will never forget it and I am still working to process and understand everything we saw.”

Us Weekly It was confirmed in October that Payne He died after falling from The third floor of his hotel in Argentina. He was 31 years old. Buenos Aires City Police were dispatched to the CasaSur Palermo hotel earlier that day, where Payne was staying. According to the official police report, officers were acting on a call reporting “an aggressive male who may have been under the influence of drugs or alcohol.”

“At 5.04 p.m., via 911 and the Integrated Public Security System, we were alerted about the presence of a person in the inner courtyard of the Casasur Hotel,” Alberto Crescente, director of the Emergency Medical Assistance System, said in a television interview on Las Info. Nation. He added: “Unfortunately, he suffered injuries that were incompatible with life due to the fall, so we had to confirm his death.” “There was no possibility of resuscitation.”

The musician’s preliminary autopsy report stated that he died from multiple injuries involving “internal and external bleeding” and suffered “multiple traumas” that contributed to his death. ABC News later reported that a partial autopsy revealed that Payne had “pink cocaine” — a recreational drug that typically mixes methamphetamine, ketamine and ecstasy — as well as cocaine, benzodiazepine and crack in his system at the time.

In November, the Public Prosecutor’s Office announced charges against three people With abandonment leading to death and supplying and facilitating drugs in connection with Payne’s death.

“The first accused, who accompanied the artist during his stay in Buenos Aires, was charged with desertion resulting in death – a crime under Article 106 of the Criminal Code, punishable by imprisonment for a period of between five and 15 years – in conjunction with supplying and facilitating drugs,” a statement issued by on Andres Esteban MadriaWho requested the arrest of the three people in a 180-page indictment he submitted Judge Laura Graciela Bruniard. “The second defendant, an employee of the hotel, is accused of supplying cocaine to Payne on two occasions during his stay at the hotel, and the third defendant, who is also a drug supplier, is charged with two further confirmed instances of supplying cocaine on 14 October. They are accused of drug trafficking.

The forensic team eventually ruled out “self-harm or third party involvement” in connection with Payne’s death and noted that his “lack of defensive posture upon impact suggests he may have fallen into a semi-unconscious or completely unconscious state.”

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