New information is emerging regarding the death of Liam Payne . Less than one day after it was reported that police in Buenos Aires had detained three individuals in connection with the One Direction 's death, Argentina's public prosecutor has confirmed three people have been charged. The prosecutor's office—headed by prosecutor Andrés Esteban Madrea —noted in a Nov.
7 statement , translated from Spanish, "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." Payne died Oct. 16 after falling off a third story balcony at his Buenos Aires hotel.
A preliminary toxicology report showed that he had drugs in his system at the time of his death , The New York Times reported, per an official with knowledge of the results , including a substance called "pink cocaine," a recreational drug typically made up of MDMA, ketamine and methamphetamine. Among those charged was a person who authorities said had been with Payne "on a daily basis during his stay in the city of Buenos Aires," adding that the unnamed individual was charged "with the crimes of abandonment of a person followed by death." The second person—whom authorities described as a hotel employee—and a third person were both "charged with the crime of supplying narcotics.
" The prosecutors said the hotel employee provided cocaine to Payne, while the third person "is accused of two other clearly proven suppli.