Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Hayden Panettiere’s onetime boyfriend and his brother were at the South Carolina apartment complex where the “Heroes” actor went into cardiac arrest and died Sunday, according to a police incident report obtained by NBC News.

In the heavily redacted report, the Greenville Police Department said Panettiere’s on-again, off-again partner, Brian Hickerson, and his brother, Zach Hickerson, were at the scene inside the apartment complex, Judson Mill Lofts.

The report goes on to say that Brian Hickerson did not become visibly emotional until EMS declared the 36-year-old actor dead.

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