3 charged in connection with Liam Payne's death, self-harm ruled out in cause of death

Three people have been charged with "crimes of abandonment of a person followed by death, supply and facilitation of narcotics," in connection with the death of former One Direction singer Liam Payne last month, the Argentinian Public Prosecutor's Office said in a statement Thursday.

The three people charged in connection with Payne's death include a person who accompanied Payneon a "daily basis during his stay in the city of Buenos Aires." This person was charged with "crimes of abandonment of a person followed by death," a charge which has a potential sentence of 5 to 15 years in prison, the prosecutor's office said.

Payne died on Oct. 16 after falling from his third-story hotel room in Palermo, Buenos Aires, according to Argentina state police. He was 31 years old.

Two other people each face two charges for "the crime of supplying narcotics," prosecutors said. The two charged were a hotel employee who is believed to have provided Payne with two supplies of cocaine while he was staying at the hotel, and a drug supplier accused of providing Payne with supplies of drugs at "two different times on Oct. 14," according to the prosecutor's office.

The investigation into Payne's death also found he was "not fully conscious or was experiencing a state of noticeable decrease or loss of consciousness at the time of the fall," causing the prosecutor's office to rule out "self-harm of any kind."

"For the prosecution, this situation would also rule out the possibility of a conscious or voluntary act on the part of the victim, since, in the state he was in, he did not know what he was doing nor could he understand it," the prosecutor's office said.

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"In the moments before his death and in the period of at least his last 72 hours, Payne only had traces of polydrug use of alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant in his body," the results of the toxicology tests showed, the prosecutor's office said.

Payne's death was caused by "multiple traumas" and "internal and external hemorrhage," the result of the musician falling from a balcony at the hotel, the autopsy found, according to the prosecutor's office.

"All the injuries that Payne had were compatible with those caused by a fall from a height and that self-harm of any kind and/or physical intervention by third parties were ruled out," the Prosecutor's Office said.

Police raid homes of hotel workers after Liam Payne's death

The news comes after two officers close to the investigation confirmed to ABC News that police had raided the homes of hotel employees and a friend of Payne.

Nine raids in total were conducted, with police confiscating cellphones, a hard drive, three laptops and drugs, including marijuana, according to the prosecutor's office.

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