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\nHayden Panettiere\u2018s on-off boyfriend \u2014 and at one point her abuser \u2014 was visited by police after it was learned that he was present, along with his brother, at the South Carolina townhouse where medical personnel attempted but ultimately failed to revive the actor over the weekend, and she died, according to a redacted police report.<\/p>\n

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\n\tLocal investigators visited Brian and Zach Hickerson\u2019s grandmother\u2019s home in Greenville, South Carolina, for a welfare check in the days after the actor\u2019s death. On Monday, the Greenville County Coroner\u2019s Office said the cause and manner of her death remain pending further investigation, and that there were no obvious signs of trauma to her body.<\/p>\n

\nPage Six <\/em>reported that on Wednesday at 8:20 a.m., officers knocked on several doors at the Greenville home belonging to Betty Ellison. No one answered, and the officers left without speaking to the two men; Zach Hickerson was home at the time, the outlet reported, and had kept the blinds closed all morning. Officers returned to the home later Wednesday morning, conducted a welfare check, then left after about 10 minutes, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the heavily redacted incident report from the Greenville Police Department, it\u2019s revealed that the two brothers were present at the townhouse rental where Panettiere died. An officer reported that Zach Hickerson identified the actor to authorities as \u201chis brother\u2019s girlfriend\u201d; later, when the actor became unresponsive to \u201cadvanced cardiac life support measures\u201d administered by EMTs, Brian Hickerson became very emotional, according to the report.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt one point on Sunday, Brian Hickerson showed officers a \u201cbag of medication\u201d that he told police she had been taking before her death, the report states.<\/p>\n

\n\tPanettiere\u2019s mother, Lesley Vogel, told NBC News that her daughter had \u201clost her way\u201d with Hickerson.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis person in her life that we have been trying to get rid of for quite some time was with her at her death, and that was Brian Hickerson,\u201d Vogel told the network.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Heroes<\/em> and Nashville<\/em> actor\u2019s relationship with Brian Hickerson was central to the discussions of domestic abuse in Panettiere\u2019s book, This Is Me: A Reckoning,<\/em> published earlier this year. He was sentenced to 45 days in jail after pleading no contest to two felony counts of injuring the actor.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe couple met in 2018 while out in West Hollywood, and after a relationship that launched at \u201clightning speed,\u201d he was soon beating her so badly she would not leave the house for weeks, as she revealed in her book. Arrests on domestic abuse charges followed in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, where a physical altercation between the two led a neighbor to call police after he pinned Panettiere down and repeatedly punched her. He was initially charged with seven felony counts, including assault, misdemeanor battery, injuring a girlfriend, and dissuading a witness from prosecuting a crime. He later pleaded no contest to two felony counts.<\/p>\n

\n\tHickerson\u2019s legal troubles related to the abuse have not ended. He has twice attempted to have a judge reduce his felony convictions to misdemeanors; the first attempt failed last year, and the second was denied last week.<\/p>\n

\n\tPolice have not indicated that Hickerson had anything to do with Panettiere\u2019s death. She had attempted to distance herself from him, including hiring private security to keep him away. Still, he inserted himself into her book release earlier this year, telling TMZ<\/em> that all accounts of abuse related to him in her memoir are true. He told the outlet they were \u201cbuddies\u201d now and that he\u2019d called her the day before her death about her book.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn her book, Panettiere discusses the insidious nature of abuse in a relationship, writing: \u201cAbusers \u2014 they weave themselves like weeds into your life,\u201d and later offers a warning to her readers.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDon\u2019t believe just what you see in a picture,\u201d she cautioned. \u201cThere is so much more going on, so much more going on. Truth is stranger than fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n

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