Sotto was about to part with his friends and tried to get down from the railings when his foot allegedly got caught in a planter, causing him to lose his balance and fall from his balcony at 4:50 a.m. on December 29, 2003.

Sotto was immediately rushed to the nearby Mandaluyong City Medical Center where he was declared dead on arrival.

"The patient died from multiple skull fracture", according to the male physician on duty at the hospital.

From the Mandaluyong hospital, Sotto was brought to Makati Medical Center at 5:45 a.m., but doctors there were also unable to revive him.

[4] His mother, Ali donated Miko's corneas to the Eye Bank of the Philippines[5] at the time of his death.