The second of two males accused of supplying medicine to British singer Liam Payne, who plunged to his loss of life from a third-floor resort room in Buenos Aires final yr, has turned himself in to authorities, Argentine police mentioned Tuesday.
David Ezequiel Pereyra, 21, offered himself Monday to police in Barracas, south of Buenos Aires, a police supply informed AFP.
Pereyra was an worker on the Casa Sur Hotel within the Argentine capital the place the previous One Direction singer died final October.
Last week, police arrested 24-year-old hotel waiter Braian Paiz — accused with Pereyra of getting supplied medicine to Payne. Paiz’s lawyer confirmed to CBS News that he had been detained. Toxicology exams after Payne’s loss of life discovered he had “traces of alcohol, cocaine and a prescribed antidepressant” in his physique.
A total of five people are charged within the pop singer’s loss of life. Three of them — Payne’s consultant in Argentina, the supervisor of the resort and the top of reception — are charged with manslaughter within the case.
Prosecutors mentioned last month that the resort supervisor and resort reception supervisor allowed Payne to be taken as much as his room, which had a balcony, as an alternative of protecting him in a spot with out sources of hazard, and with firm, till medical assist might arrive.
Hotel staff called the police on the day to report an “aggressive man who could possibly be underneath the affect of medicine or alcohol,” a spokesperson for the Buenos Aires Police mentioned in an announcement to CBS News again on Oct. 16, the day of Payne’s loss of life.
Payne had spoken publicly about scuffling with substance abuse and dealing with reaching fame at an early age.
His loss of life prompted a world outpouring of grief from household, former bandmates and followers, with gatherings of 1000’s of mourners around the globe.
One of the highest-grossing reside acts on this planet within the 2010s, One Direction went on an indefinite hiatus in 2016. Payne loved some solo success earlier than his profession stalled.
