{"id":461907,"date":"2026-09-12T20:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/461907\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T20:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T20:04:31","slug":"will-hayden-panettieres-death-uncover-a-supplier-like-matthew-perrys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/461907\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Hayden Panettiere’s death uncover a supplier like Matthew Perry’s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Federal authorities probing the death of actor Hayden Panettiere are focusing on where the drugs and medications that played a role in her death came from, echoing similar probes that resulted in charges for suppliers in the deaths of Matthew Perry<\/a> and Mac Miller<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Drug Enforcement Administration agents and local investigators have questioned several people about the circumstances of her Aug. 16 death<\/a>, focusing on potential controlled substances and medications tied to her demise inside a Greenville, S.C., apartment, according to sources familiar with the probe. <\/p>\n

Paramedics and police found Panettiere in cardiac arrest, according to the Greenville County Coroner\u2019s Office. Dispatch audio recordings from Broadcastify.com<\/a> reference a possible overdose and CPR in progress. Narcan was reportedly administered by paramedics who arrived, and after efforts to resuscitate her, she was declared dead at 2:31 p.m.<\/p>\n

Her death echoes that of actor Matthew Perry and rapper Mac Miller, both of whom succumbed to overdoses. In their respective cases, prosecutors secured convictions for the people who supplied Perry with ketamine and Miller with cocaine and oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl. Perry\u2019s demise in his hot tub led to his assistant, two doctors, a producer and a woman dubbed the \u201cKetamine Queen\u201d pleading guilty. <\/p>\n

The Greenville County coroner, in the wake of Panettiere\u2019s death, conducted an autopsy but has not made a formal finding on the cause of death and toxicology results are pending.<\/p>\n

Panettiere lived in Los Angeles, but her boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, is a Greenville native, according to authorities. A police report outlined the initial response from police who arrived at the scene. The report states that Hickerson and his brother Zach Hickerson were with Panettiere inside an apartment when the 36-year-old actor died.<\/p>\n

According to the police report, Brian Hickerson showed an officer \u201ca bag of medications HAYDEN is currently on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several areas of the report were redacted, including statements from the brothers about what transpired as they called 911.<\/p>\n

The officer who authored the report, Matthew Bryan, wrote that he recorded an interview with Brian Hickerson on his body-worn camera, and observed Zach Hickerson being \u201cvery emotional\u201d while first responders tried to revive the actor. Brian Hickerson became emotional after she was declared dead, Officer Matthew Bryan wrote.<\/p>\n

Later, he said that authorities obtained video of three individuals coming and going from the apartment from the complex\u2019s security, which helped detectives with a search warrant. <\/p>\n

Sloan Ellis, a South Carolina attorney for Hickerson hired in the wake of Panettiere\u2019s death, said in a statement, \u201cHayden\u2019s death remains under investigation, and it is important to allow that investigation to proceed. As has been publicly reported, police confirmed there were no signs of foul play. Out of respect for Hayden\u2019s loved ones and the ongoing investigation, there will be no further comment at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sources familiar with the probe have met with DEA agents about the actor\u2018s death, according to People magazine and TMZ. <\/p>\n

Hickerson was arrested multiple times on suspicion of domestic violence against Panettiere, beginning in May 2019 in Los Angeles, though the charges were later dismissed when prosecutors couldn\u2019t secure a material witness. <\/p>\n

Following an eight-count criminal indictment in 2020 that covered multiple violent incidents over the previous year, Hickerson pleaded no contest in April 2021 to two felony counts of injuring a spouse or girlfriend. <\/p>\n

He was sentenced to 45 days in county jail along with four years of formal probation, ordered to attend mandatory domestic violence classes, and received a five-year protective order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal authorities probing the death of actor Hayden Panettiere are focusing on where the drugs and medications that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7643,3895,182065,339,21599,172696,113943,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,46037,182066,172695,236,3729,182067,27250],"class_list":["post-461907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-actress","tag-apartment","tag-brian-hickerson","tag-death","tag-federal-authority","tag-hayden-panettiere","tag-ketamine-queen","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-matthew-perry","tag-medication-hayden","tag-panettiere","tag-police","tag-report","tag-similar-probe","tag-supplier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}