Liam Payne apparently tried to leave his hotel room via the third floor balcony when he was killed in Argentina. Witness statements, surveillance footage, a 911 call, and the police report all support this theory TMZ.

TMZ has obtained surveillance footage from the lobby of the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, taken just before the singer’s death. In the clips – which were taken while Liam was reportedly causing a disturbance and behaving ‘erratically’ in the main area of ​​the hotel – three hotel staff carried the late star back to his room.

Liam, who was 31 when he died on October 16, struggled with staff as they tried to force him back into his room. TMZ. As Liam has openly said in the past, he doesn’t like spending time behind hotel room doors like he did during his One Direction days. The footage showed an employee using a master key to unlock Liam’s door and place him back inside.

The site reported that Liam has escaped through balconies in the past, citing a specific instance that occurred in September when he reportedly used a garden hose to get out of a room in a Florida rental house.

According to the 911 call from Argentina, workers were concerned about the balcony situation and told the operator, “I don’t know if his life is possibly in danger. He is in a room with a balcony and, well, we are a little scared,” says Per TMZ. Despite the concerns, Liam was left in his room, sources said TMZ they believe the hotel is responsible for more concerns about the lobby disruption than Liam’s safety.

When the “Strip That Down” singer’s body was found, he had a hat on his head that he was not wearing in the lobby surveillance footage. He also had a bag on his shoulder that he had not worn before, supporting the theory that he was trying to escape from the balcony with his belongings. The police report also revealed that another of Liam’s bags – containing a note saying ‘for Liam’, as well as pills and a bottle of Jack Daniel’s – was found on the second floor balcony. It is believed he dropped the bag before trying to lower himself to the second floor where he could more easily jump to the ground, according to TMZ.

The hotel responded with: “No comment,” which the site contacted.

Liam died “as a result of ‘multiple trauma’ and ‘hemorrhage, internal and external’, as a result of the fall the musician suffered,” according to his autopsy report. At the time of his death he had alcohol and drugs in his system. “All the injuries exhibited by Payne were compatible with those caused by a fall from a height and self-harm of any kind was excluded,” the coroner said.

“A conscious or voluntary act” by Liam was ruled out because “in the condition he was in, he did not know what he was doing and could not understand it,” the report said.