3 arrested in connection to Liam Payne’s death, Argentinian authorities say

Argentina’s public prosecutor announced in a statement Thursday that three people were charged in connection to the death of Liam Payne.

According to NBC News, the prosecutor’s statement “illicit conduct was discovered from which three people were charged with the crimes of abandonment of a person followed by death, supply and facilitation of narcotics.”

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

Per the report, a person who was with Payne on daily in Buenos Aires was charged with abandoning a person following death.

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

They are both charged with two acts of supplying narcotics.

Toxicology reports indicated Payne had alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant drug in his system.

There was no reference to “pink cocaine,” which ABC News reported Payne had in his system.

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

Investigators said that there were no signs of anyone else being involved in his death, citing a lack of defensive wounds on Payne’s body that also indicates he did not try to protect himself from the fall. The prosecutor’s report said Payne could have fallen into a state of semi-consciousness or unconsciousness.

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