On December 10, Rolling Stone reported that two hotel workers were charged by an Argentinian judge in relation to Liam Payne’s death, citing new documents 2 months after the One Direction star suffered a fatal fall from his hotel in Buenos Aires.
The two were CasaSur Palermo employees with the first being reportedly the hotel’s manager, while the second person was the head receptionist who called 911 leading up to Payne’s Oct. 16 death.
The judge has only asked that the manager and receptionist be notified of the charges, calling for all suspects in the case to be questioned amid local authorities’ ongoing investigation into what played out the night of Payne’s fall, according to Rolling Stone. It was not clear what the two were being charged with according to the documents as reported by the publication.
“Since there is sufficient reason to suspect that they have participated in the investigated act, we ask that the following people give a statement,” reads the filing.
Three others were previously charged in connection to the case: two individuals who work for the hotel were accused of supplying the singer with drugs, as well as a friend accused of abandonment of a person followed by death. All of them were detained by police in November.
All five individuals named by the judge will now have to face the courts. After interrogations, it’ll be up to the judge to decide whether they should be further prosecuted or dropped from the case.
Leading up to Payne’s fall from the balcony, the reception head named in the new documents placed two 911 calls. The first was to report that a guest was “trashing the entire room,” and in the second call, he urged that the guest’s life “may be in danger.” The receptionist also asked the dispatcher to send only emergency medical services, and to abstain from sending the police as well, according to a transcript of the call.
The latest update in the investigation comes about three weeks after Payne was laid to rest in a private service attended by his One Direction bandmates, family, and girlfriend Kate Cassidy.
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