3 charged in connection to Liam Paynes death [Video]

(Gray News) – Three people are facing charges in connection to the death of One Direction member Liam Payne.

The charges were announced Thursday in a press release from Argentina’s National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office.

The suspects were not publicly named, but the first suspect “is the person who accompanied the artist on a daily basis during his stay in the city of Buenos Aires.” That person is charged with abandonment of a person followed by death and supply and facilitation of narcotics.

If convicted, that person could face five to 15 years in prison.

The second suspect is a hotel employee accused of supplying Payne with cocaine. The third suspect is a “drug supplier” related to the case. Both are facing two counts of supplying narcotics.

Payne died Oct. 16 after he fell from a third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, authorities said.

According to the press release, investigators have attempted to “reconstruct” the days that Payne was staying at the hotel between Oct. 13-16.

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