Boyfriend of Hayden Panettiere was at apartment when actor died
Police report shows Brian Hickerson and his brother, Zach Hickerson, were at Greenville, South Carolina, residence
TL;DR
- Brian Hickerson and his brother, Zach Hickerson, were at Hayden Panettiere's South Carolina apartment when she died.
- Paramedics declared Panettiere dead at 2:31 pm after attempting lifesaving measures; no obvious physical reasons for her unresponsiveness were noted.
- The cause of death is under investigation, and police saw no signs of foul play or trauma.
- Panettiere and Hickerson had a tumultuous relationship with past allegations of physical abuse against him.
- Hickerson pleaded no contest to two counts of injuring a spouse or partner in 2020 and was sentenced to probation, anger management, and AA sessions.
- Panettiere wrote in her memoir about hoping Hickerson's jail time would scare him straight and her decision to try and forgive him.
- A police report noted Zach Hickerson was emotional while EMS worked on Panettiere, while Brian Hickerson only became emotional after she was declared deceased.
- Panettiere struggled with alcohol addiction and depression, and her daughter, Kaya, lives full-time with her father, Wladimir Klitschko, in Ukraine.