Liam Payne’s Death: 2 More Hotel Workers Charged

An Argentinian judge has charged two hotel workers in relation to Liam Payne‘s death, Rolling Stone reported Tuesday (Dec. 10), citing new documents.

According to the filings — which come about two months after the One Direction star suffered a fatal fall from the third-story balcony of his hotel in Buenos Aires — the publication reports that the two are CasaSur Palermo employees. The first is reportedly the hotel’s manager, while the second person is the receptionist head who called 911 leading up to Payne’s Oct. 16 death.

It is not clear from the documents what specifically the two parties are being charged with, per the publication. 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, citing the documents obtained.

“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 are accused of supplying the “Strip That Down” 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.

Payne died Oct. 16 of multiple traumas. Toxicology reports showed that he had multiple substances in his system at the time, including alcohol, cocaine and prescription antidepressants.

Leading up to his 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.