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Updated · HOLA! USA · Aug 20

Greenville Police Check Brian Hickerson Family Home as Neighbor Says She Called 911 6 Times

Updated

Updated · HOLA! USA · Aug 20

Greenville Police Check Brian Hickerson Family Home as Neighbor Says She Called 911 6 Times

Q: Why did Brian Hickerson suddenly stop cooperating with investigators as they piece together the missing hours before the fatal overdose?

There is no verified public explanation for why Brian Hickerson stopped fully cooperating. The most grounded reading of the available facts is that he hired a lawyer and, once investigators’ focus intensified, began limiting contact on legal advice. That shift came as police expanded the death investigation around Hayden Panettiere’s final hours in Greenville, South Carolina. Detectives are reviewing surveillance footage, phone and computer data, witness accounts, the 911 timeline, and a medication bag Hickerson reportedly showed officers. A search warrant was also executed, and the case remains open while toxicology and other tests are pending. Hickerson is under heavier scrutiny not because he has been charged in connection with Panettiere’s death—he has not—but because he was with her when she died and because of the couple’s documented history of domestic violence. Police reports place him and his brother at the apartment when responders arrived. Panettiere’s mother has also said he had long been a concern for the family. In that context, it is common for a person at the center of investigators’ timeline reconstruction to stop speaking freely and communicate through counsel. That does not, by itself, prove wrongdoing. It means the likely reason for the sudden change is legal self-protection as investigators dig deeper into the missing hours before the apparent overdose.

3 articles · Updated · HOLA! USA · Aug 20

Greenville police went to a Brian Hickerson family residence around 8:20 a.m. Wednesday for a welfare check, knocked on several doors, got no response and left within about three minutes.
Police said the call did not require an incident report and was unrelated to the investigation into Hayden Panettiere’s death, where Hickerson was present at the South Carolina home.
Mia Terrazzas, a former West Hollywood neighbor, told Inside Edition she called 911 at least six times over disturbances at Panettiere’s apartment and said an HOA notice warned residents to call police if Hickerson appeared.
Hickerson pleaded no contest in 2021 to 2 felony counts tied to a 2020 domestic violence case involving Panettiere, drawing 45 days in jail, four years’ probation and a five-year restraining order.
The renewed scrutiny comes after Panettiere’s mother said the family had tried for years to remove Hickerson from her life and after a police report said he was escorted out once EMS declared her dead.