New details surrounding Presley Gerber’s death are revealing what unfolded during the final minutes before emergency responders arrived at the Santa Monica facility where the 27-year-old was found dead.

Dispatch recordings from the morning of September 20 indicate that first responders were sent to an address on Berkeley Street after reports of both an apparent overdose and cardiac arrest. The information adds a significant new layer to an investigation that remains open as authorities wait for additional medical testing to determine exactly how Gerber died.

Presley, the only son of supermodel Cindy Crawford and businessman Rande Gerber and the older brother of actress and model Kaia Gerber, was 27.

According to dispatch information, Santa Monica police were called to the 1000 block of Berkeley Street at approximately 9:35 a.m. on Sunday.

One dispatch identified the emergency as a cardiac arrest, while another indicated that responders were dealing with an apparent overdose at the same location.

Presley was later pronounced dead by responding paramedics at 9:45 a.m.

Los Angeles County Medical Examiner records showed that he died at a rehabilitation facility.

Police Investigating a Suspected Overdose

The Santa Monica Police Department provided additional information the following day.

In a statement issued September 21, police said officers arrived at the facility and found Presley dead.

Detectives are investigating the case as a suspected overdose, according to the department.

Authorities also said there was no indication of foul play at that stage of the investigation.

The final cause and manner of death, however, will not be determined by police. That decision rests with the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner, which is continuing its own investigation.

The Medical Examiner’s office said the case remained in its early stages and that only limited information could initially be released.

An autopsy was performed on Monday, September 21.

But rather than issuing an immediate conclusion, officials deferred the cause and manner of death because additional testing or studies were required.

Deferred cases can take months to complete, meaning the family and the public may not receive a definitive medical explanation for some time.

For Crawford, Rande and Kaia, the new investigative details come during an intensely private period of grief.

A family representative asked that they be given privacy during what was described as an extremely difficult and painful time.

A Public Life Marked by Private Struggles

Presley grew up surrounded by fame.

His mother became one of the defining supermodels of her generation. His father built a successful career in business, and his younger sister eventually followed the family’s fashion path while also moving into acting.

Presley entered modeling as well, appearing at major industry events and becoming recognizable in his own right.

But behind that public image, he had also become increasingly open about struggles involving mental health and substance abuse.

Rather than presenting an image of effortless celebrity life, Presley used public appearances and social media to speak about periods when he had been struggling and about the pressure he felt growing up in the spotlight.

That openness became especially visible during what would ultimately be his final public appearance.

On June 11, roughly three months before his death, Presley appeared alongside Cindy and Rande at a mental-health-focused event at Aviator Nation Dreamland in Malibu.

Speaking to the audience, he reflected on the pressure he had felt to present himself in a particular way because of his public upbringing.

He described honesty about his experiences as something that had ultimately given him a sense of freedom.

“The most free I felt was when I was finally honest with myself,” Presley told the audience.

The message fit a broader theme in his later public life.

He encouraged others to build simple healthy routines even during difficult periods, including getting outdoors and remaining physically active.

His advice was deliberately practical: move when possible, get outside, seek sunlight and reconnect with the physical world even when motivation is low.

Those words now carry added weight in light of what happened just months later.

Kaia Had Spoken About the Impact on Their Family

Presley’s struggles were not experienced in isolation.

Only about a month before his death, Kaia spoke publicly about how her brother’s long-running battle with addiction had affected the entire family.

She described the situation as something that changed the emotional balance inside their home.

When one family member requires significant support, she explained, everyone else can find themselves reorganizing their own needs around that person.

Kaia said she had begun seeing herself as the child who needed less help, in part because she did not want to add another burden while the family was focused on Presley.

Her comments offered an unusually personal look at how one person’s struggle with addiction can extend far beyond the individual involved.

It can reshape relationships between parents and children, influence how siblings behave and alter the way a family responds to stress over years.

For the Gerbers, those experiences had been unfolding privately even as each family member maintained a highly visible public life.

Questions Remain After Autopsy

The latest emergency-dispatch information provides more detail about the morning Presley died, but it does not yet answer the central question of precisely what caused his death.

Responders were called for an apparent overdose and cardiac arrest.

Police are treating the death as a suspected overdose.

But the Medical Examiner has not issued a final determination.

Additional laboratory work or other studies must first be completed before officials can establish the official cause and manner of death.

For now, that leaves a gap between what emergency responders encountered on September 20 and what medical investigators will ultimately conclude.

There is also a painful contrast between Presley’s final months and the circumstances of his death.

In June, he stood publicly beside his parents and spoke about honesty, vulnerability and the importance of caring for oneself.

By September, paramedics were responding to an emergency call at the rehabilitation facility where he was staying.

He was pronounced dead ten minutes after the initial 9:35 a.m. dispatch.

Presley Gerber’s death has now become the subject of an ongoing medical and police investigation, while his family faces the loss of a son and brother whose most vulnerable public messages had increasingly focused on exactly the struggles that shaped his final years.

Until the Medical Examiner completes the additional testing, the final medical explanation remains unresolved.