(Gray News) – Three people face charges in connection with the death of One Direction member Liam Payne.

The charges were announced Thursday a press release from the National Criminal and Correctional Office of Argentina.

The suspects have not been publicly named, but the first suspect “is the person who accompanied the artist daily during his stay in the city of Buenos Aires.” That person is charged with abandoning a person followed by death and supplying and facilitating narcotics.

If convicted, that person faces 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” connected to the case. Both face two counts of supplying narcotics.

Payne died on October 16 after falling from a third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, authorities said.

According to the press release, investigators tried to “reconstruct” the days Payne stayed at the hotel from October 13-16.

Officials said Payne had “multiple use of alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant in his system.”

Authorities also said Payne’s death was not a suicide and that he was not pushed by someone else.

Officials said Payne’s phone records and analysis of more than 800 hours of video footage from various hotel security cameras aided the investigation.

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