Content warning: This story discusses suicide. Authorities don't believe Liam Payne intended to die. Investigators have determined that the One Direction alum—who fell from the third floor of a hotel in Argentina Oct.
16—did not die by suicide, according to a Nov. 7 press release translated from Spanish from Argentina's public prosecutor. "Although other medical background information from the victim's clinical history must still be analyzed," their statement read, "the phenomenon of the lack of defense or self-preservation reflex in the fall, together with other relevant data from his consumption, allow us to conclude that Liam Payne was not fully conscious or was experiencing a state of noticeable decrease or loss of consciousness at the time of the fall.
" Since Payne, 31, was not fully conscious, prosecutors do not believe he intended to die. "For the prosecution, this situation would also rule out the possibility of a conscious or voluntary act on the part of the victim," the statement continued, "since, in the state he was in, he did not know what he was doing nor could he understand it." Payne fell from his hotel balcony in Buenos Aires on Oct.
16 and died due to traumatic injuries and internal and external hemorrhaging, according to the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor's Office No. 16. Toxicology testing revealed that Payne had alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant in his body at his time of death.
While Argentine investigators are continu.