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Panettiere, who starred in the TV series “Heroes” and
“Nashville,” was pronounced dead in an apartment in Greenville
on Aug. 16 at age 36 after paramedics found her unresponsive.
A coroner’s report obtained by The Associated Press last month
said her death was from an accidental overdose of several drugs,
including fentanyl, and she had been in rehab just weeks before.
Her on-and-off boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, and his brother Zach
Hickerson were at the home.
It remains unclear whether federal authorities may still be
examining the case separately. In a petition to a California
court last month, Panettiere's ex-fiance, former boxer Wladimir
Klitschko, said some of her property had been taken by federal
law enforcement agents investigating her death and by an unnamed
nonrelative looking to sell it.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration did not immediately
respond to emailed requests for comment Wednesday, and
Greenville police Sgt. Diana Munoz said she could not comment on
whether any other agencies were investigating.
The California court granted Klitschko legal status this month
to protect Panettiere’s property for their 11-year-old daughter,
who is her sole heir.
In “This Is Me: A Reckoning,” a memoir that was published in
May, Panettiere acknowledged being addicted to alcohol and
having postpartum depression after her daughter’s birth in 2014.
The girl went to live with Klitschko full-time when she was 2.
Panettiere’s father told investigators that at the time of her
death, she had plans to visit her daughter in Ukraine days
later.
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