Liam Payne investigators work to reconstruct star's "final hours"

Officials investigating nan death of Liam Payne successful Argentina said Tuesday they are trying to reconstruct nan erstwhile "One Direction" star's "final hours" arsenic experts scour compartment phones, computers, photographs and videos from information cameras.

Payne's father, Geoff Payne, has been updated astir nan investigation by nan caput of Argentina's National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor's Office, according to a news release. Geoff Payne has been successful Argentina since nan weekend, erstwhile he visited nan edifice wherever Payne fell to his death. 

The prosecutor's agency told Geoff Payne that toxicology reports are still pending. Another study to spot if Payne was sick astatine nan clip of his decease is besides being conducted. Those tests, done arsenic portion of Payne's autopsy, must beryllium completed earlier nan singer's assemblage tin beryllium released, officials said. 

The investigation into nan hours before Payne's death remains ongoing, nan prosecutor's agency said. CBS News antecedently reported that constabulary were dispatched to Payne's edifice successful consequence to an emergency telephone astir an "aggressive man who could beryllium nether nan power of narcotics aliases alcohol" who had "thrown himself from nan pavilion of his room." Officials person not confirmed if Payne intentionally jumped aliases fell by accident. Investigators person said his room was a mess, pinch what appeared to beryllium narcotics and intoxicant among surgery objects and furniture. 

A societal media selfie video shows erstwhile One Direction vocalist Liam Payne speaking successful Sarmiento, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, presumed to beryllium 1 of nan past videos of Payne live posted connected his Snapchat verified relationship amidst decease announcement, successful this surface drawback obtained from a societal media video, released connected October 16, 2024.   Liam Payne via Snapchat/via REUTERS

ABC News and TMZ, citing anonymous sources acquainted pinch nan preliminary tests, reported a cocktail of narcotics called "pink cocaine" -- which contains methamphetamine and ketamine -- had been recovered during a partial autopsy, but officials person not released immoderate results from preliminary tests.

The prosecutor's agency said it is conducting study connected physics devices from nan scene, and that "numerous statements" person been taken from edifice workers, aesculapian professionals, and others to "reconstruct nan victim's last hours."   

The prosecutor's agency noted successful nan property merchandise that immoderate accusation astir Payne's decease will only beryllium released done its charismatic channels. 

In:
• Death
• Argentina