Actor Hayden Panettiere's on-and-off boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, and his brother, Zach Hickerson, were at the South Carolina apartment where she died over the weekend, according to a police report released on Tuesday. A Greenville police officer who responded to the residence on Sunday afternoon was met by the brothers.
The report states that paramedics were performing CPR on an unresponsive woman. The officer noted that the patient did not appear to have any obvious physical reasons for being unresponsive. Emergency workers declared Panettiere dead at 2:31 pm.
No cause of death has been determined, and her death remains under investigation. An autopsy found no signs of trauma, and police stated that officers saw no signs of foul play. Panettiere would have turned 37 on Friday.
The police report, which is heavily redacted, indicates the responding officer first spoke with Zach Hickerson, who identified the unresponsive woman as his brother's girlfriend. The officer observed Zach to be emotional while paramedics worked on Panettiere, while Brian did not become emotional until she was officially declared deceased.