Hayden Panettiere‘s on-off boyfriend — and at one point her abuser — was visited by police after it was learned that he was present, along with his brother, at the South Carolina townhouse where medical personnel attempted but ultimately failed to revive the actor over the weekend, and she died, according to a redacted police report.
Local investigators visited Brian and Zach Hickerson’s grandmother’s home in Greenville, South Carolina, for a welfare check in the days after the actor’s death. On Monday, the Greenville County Coroner’s Office said the cause and manner of her death remain pending further investigation, and that there were no obvious signs of trauma to her body.
Page Six reported that on Wednesday at 8:20 a.m., officers knocked on several doors at the Greenville home belonging to Betty Ellison. No one answered, and the officers left without speaking to the two men; Zach Hickerson was home at the time, the outlet reported, and had kept the blinds closed all morning. Officers returned to the home later Wednesday morning, conducted a welfare check, then left after about 10 minutes, the outlet reported.
In the heavily redacted incident report from the Greenville Police Department, it’s revealed that the two brothers were present at the townhouse rental where Panettiere died. An officer reported that Zach Hickerson identified the actor to authorities as “his brother’s girlfriend”; later, when the actor became unresponsive to “advanced cardiac life support measures” administered by EMTs, Brian Hickerson became very emotional, according to the report.
