3 people arrested and charged in connection with Liam Payne’s death, the Argentine authorities say

Three people were charged in the death of singer Liam Payne, Argentina’s public prosecutor announced in a statement on Thursday.

The prosecutor’s statement said that during the investigation into Payne’s death, “unlawful conduct was discovered from which three individuals were charged with felony abandonment of a person followed by death, delivery and facilitation of narcotics.”

The former One Direction member fell from the balcony of a Buenos Aires hotel on October 16.

A person who was with Payne on a daily basis while he was in Buenos Aires is charged with leaving a person after death, Andrés Madrea’s statement said.

A hotel employee is accused of supplying Payne with cocaine twice while he was staying at the hotel, the affidavit said, and a third person is accused of delivering drugs to the singer twice during his stay on Oct. 14.

They are both charged with delivering drugs, two counts each, Madrea said.

Toxicology reports showed that in the last 72 hours before his death, Payne had alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant in his system, according to prosecutors.

His death was caused by “multiple trauma” and “internal and external bleeding” from the fall from the hotel’s third-floor balcony, prosecutors said.

Medical examiners who performed the autopsy told prosecutors that his injuries were consistent with a fall from that height and that self-inflicted injury and involvement by another were ruled out. They added that since Payne “did not adopt a reflex position” to protect himself during the fall, “it can be inferred that he may have fallen in a state of semi or total unconsciousness.”

Throughout the investigation, “exhaustive and careful actions and measures were taken to clarify the circumstances surrounding the artist’s death,” the statement said. Prosecutors heard “several dozen” testimonies from hotel staff, family members, friends, doctors, biochemists and psychiatrists.

Prosecutors also analyzed more than 800 hours of security video footage from the hotel and from public roads and reviewed the contents of Payne’s cell phone.

Also following the inquest, Payne’s body was released to his father, Geoff Payne, last weekend.

Payne, who rose to fame as a member of boy band One Direction, allegedly displayed destructive behavior in the hours before his death.

The hotel where he was staying called 911 after he “overdosed on drugs and alcohol” and “broke the whole room.”

“The guest is in a room with a balcony and we’re a little afraid that he might do something life-threatening,” the caller said, according to audio from local media. by Telemundo.

Payne was found dead minutes after the call was made.