Hayden Panettiere's Final Days ... Neighbor Reveals What She Witnessed | TMZ

Mia, why don't you kind of lay out what you saw and what period of time you saw it in? Well, Hayden, she owned the apartment and her family had lived there for quite a few years before she returned in January of 2020. And it was at that time I started seeing a lot of people come into the building. And it was interesting because she would go to the door and meet them at the lobby and go to the car and speak with them for a few minutes and then come back. Or a couple of times I saw these individuals in the elevator. It was quite frequently for quite a while. There were two women that I saw primarily and a male individual. And the male individual I saw one week prior to her, I believe, no, it was a few days actually before she left for her trip where she passed. What was it specifically that you saw them delivering, if there was anything that you could see when they were going to her door? I typically would see just like a brown paper bag or something. And at first I thought, you know, perhaps it was marijuana or something. And I realized that, no, it's nothing, nothing like that. It seemed more nefarious than that. I grew up in an environment that was very similar to this, unfortunately. And it's pretty easy to identify what you're familiar with. And I spoke with my daughter a couple of times. She had seen these individuals as well. And we both agreed that there was something shady or that they were seen delivering things. The size of the bags, are they like lunch bag, like brown paper lunch bag size? Smaller, smaller. They were just, yeah, like smaller. Like I saw a lot of brown paper bags, but they were much smaller than a lunch bag. You mentioned a male showing up, the male you had seen repeatedly showing up a few days before she left for South Carolina. Can you describe that in as much detail as possible? Was he holding a bag? Did she answer the door? Describe that, because that could be relevant. Well, he was holding a bag. He couldn't get into the building. He had buzzed their apartment quite a few times. And I was coming back from a walk and I led him into the building, went up into the elevator with him. And he did, yeah, he had a small bag on him. And interestingly enough, though, it had Brian written on it. I believe it was just the first name and possibly the last initial age. But I just thought, yeah, that's interesting. He was like, you know, kind of early 30s, middle age. Sometimes it's really hard to tell how old people are now. And definitely, I don't know, he resembled like a cartel member or something. He looked at, this man is a little bit more sophisticated than the two women I saw delivering things. So you raised that possibility that the bag said Brian. Obviously, Brian Hickerson. Oh, I saw his name on it. I saw his name on it. And that was also, we know, an issue in the building, right? That we've seen the posters. They look like wanted posters. But it was basically the management of the building saying they did not want Brian there. So if anyone saw him to report him, even though those signs were up, clearly, Brian, we now know, was with Hayden all along, even when they, you know, acted like they weren't together. Yeah, I saw him there constantly. Did you see Brian there that week, the week before she left? Yes, absolutely. I saw him constantly. They're just the next apartment over from me. And we have parking spots in the garage that are right next to each other. And he would be in the garage frequently working on his car or, you know, and I think at one point I had mentioned that he had passed out and left the car running for hours. And I had to get someone to get him out of the car. And, you know, he was just always doing something that was kind of antisocial. But yeah, he was here consistently. Did have the authorities come and spoken with you or anybody else in the building as far as you know? No. And they keep saying that there's been raids here. I haven't seen anything. You know, my unit faces the streets. I can see anyone who pulls up and I can hear the elevator pinging. And I also have a ring and I haven't seen nor heard anything. Well, this is really, really interesting. And it is particularly interesting that this gentleman you saw showed up a few days before they left and had a bag with the name Brian on it. That is interesting. I believe it was on a Tuesday. Yeah. And I believe they left on Saturday. Yeah. So it would have been not that Tuesday. And yeah, it was interesting. I remember talking to my daughter about it. Like there's, you know, just some like, could he be more obvious? You know, this individual that he was some type of dealer or something, the way he came up in the elevator, like, you know, we had seen him a couple of times before, as I mentioned, but it just felt extremely obvious to me. It is, you know, and I think people might think this, Mia, as you're laying this out, if this person was a dealer or even a delivery person for a dealer, it seems odd to put someone's name on the bag. That just seems like he's doing multiple runs. And once they, I guess it seems like it's something you wouldn't want your dealer to do. That's what I thought as well. And then I realized that possibly they were doing that to make it appear as though there were, you know, marijuana hash or some type of regular delivery because yeah, otherwise it would look, you know, completely suspicious.