Published: 15:07 BST, 19 August 2026 | Updated: 17:53 BST, 19 August 2026
Cops were seen descending on a South Carolina home linked to Hayden Panettiere's boyfriend Brian Hickerson Wednesday morning – days after the actress died of a suspected overdose.
Brian, 37, and his brother Zachary were together at the scene on Sunday as first responders fought unsuccessfully to revive Panettiere, 36, at an Airbnb in Greenville where she had been staying.
Brian – Panettiere's longtime on-again, off-again boyfriend – has not been seen publicly since, but Zachary has been staying at the home of his grandmother Betty Ellison, five miles from the rental home where the shock death unfolded.
Two police cars from the Greenville City Police Department rolled up to the four-bed property at 8.30am before two female officers knocked repeatedly on the front door to conduct a welfare check.
When they didn't get an answer, the cops walked around the back of the $800,000 property, which has had its curtains drawn all morning.
After five minutes of knocking and calling through the door, the two cops got back into their vehicles and drove away.
Hayden Panettiere had traveled to South Carolina from LA with boyfriend Brian Hickerson just a day before her untimely death
Two Greenville police officers were snapped arriving at the Greenville, South Carolina home linked to Brian and Zach Hickerson Wednesday morning for a welfare check
Police made two separate calls to the house within an hour and half on Wednesday morning, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The two female officers walked round to the back yard on their second visit.
They emerged minutes later, refusing to comment or confirm who the welfare check was for.
It comes as Zach Hickerson, 38, was spotted at the house a day earlier.
'No comment, bro, and with no offense to you and what you're trying to do, this is private property,' he told our reporter.
'Please respect our privacy. I'm not going to answer anything that you ask me. I would appreciate it if you wouldn't mind just leaving us alone.'
