The South Carolina department said the closure followed the coroner’s determination and the findings of its investigation. The official account establishes that the police inquiry is over and that the death was classified as accidental.
The reports agree on the central development: Greenville police closed the case after the accidental-death ruling. Sky News described the finding as coming from a post-mortem, while Deadline and Variety reported the department’s statement linking the ruling to the coroner’s determination and the investigation’s findings.
ABC Australia characterized Panettiere’s death as an overdose death while also reporting that a coroner found it accidental. That description remains specific to ABC Australia’s account; the broader official finding reported across the supplied coverage is that the death was accidental.
The police closure marks the formal end of the investigation described in the available reports. Those reports provide no further account of the department’s investigative findings beyond the statement that the coroner’s determination and the investigation supported the accidental classification.