"Buckwild" cast member Shain Gandee was found dead

[phyzzique]

In a statement released Monday morning, the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department reported the MTV reality star as missing. However, authorities later confirmed that the 21-year-old was found dead in a truck in Sissonville, W. Va., along with two other bodies, the Charleston Gazette reports.

ABC affiliate WCHS-TV reports that a man on a four-wheeler spotted the three unresponsive people in a vehicle on Wolf Pen Road Monday morning. After emergency services responded, the three were confirmed dead.

According to Kanawha County Commissioner Kent Carper, the body of Gandee's 48-year-old uncle, David Gandee, was also recovered, local CBS affiliate WOWK-TV reports. The identity of the third body has not been released.

In the missing persons advisory, police said Gandee was last seen with his uncle at Larry's Bar in Sissonville at about 3 a.m. on March 31. Both men were reported missing overnight after family and friends could not locate them throughout the day.

The two men told others that they planned on going "four-wheeling" in the younger Gandee's Ford Bronco, police said. However, the men did not specify exactly where they planned to drive off-road. The red-and-white vehicle was last seen leaving the parking lot of Larry's Bar early Sunday morning.

 

[markfive]

Beat me to this one, phyzzique!

Haven't been able to find anything on COD yet, but one story says the truck exhaust was underwater and might have caused a carbon monoxide buildup. Since the weather wasn't that cold, though, I don't know why they would have sat there with the engine running until that happened, though. They were drinking when last seen, so that's got to be part of the puzzle.

 

[yalada]

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[markfive]

Well, it looks like carbon monoxide it is--although I don't see how just getting stuck in the mud causes this to happen. Wouldn't you get out and try to push the vehicle? Or just start walking? (Reportedly they weren't far from home.) Surely one of them had a cell phone? Something just doesn't add up.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/04/02/buckwild-starshain-gandeeone-carbon-monoxide/

 

[HangTime]

Carbon monoxide is odorless and tasteless. Shain was probably racing the engine trying to get the SUV unstuck. That would accentuate the carbon monoxide buildup in the vehicle. And from what I've read, it renders you unconscious pretty fast, so there's not much time to react.

 

[phyzzique]

Well, it looks like carbon monoxide it is--although I don't see how just getting stuck in the mud causes this to happen. Wouldn't you get out and try to push the vehicle? Or just start walking? (Reportedly they weren't far from home.) Surely one of them had a cell phone? Something just doesn't add up.

They left the bar at three in the morning......I'm guessing they were plastered

 

[badjohnny25]

wow crazy! i was just watching this dude on mtv not too long ago!

 

[altsxman]

sexy Shain

oh so S E X Y..! & died doing something he loved...

 

[Mattai]

They left the bar at three in the morning......I'm guessing they were plastered

I'm with you, Phyzz. Dumb as a rock + alcohol + 3a.m. = cause of death.

I'm guessing that if the truck was stuck in the mud, it might have covered the exhaust pipe. Then that happens, the exhaust (which has to go somewhere) backfills into the cabin because it has nowhere else to go. It wouldn't take long to fill with enough to kill them.

Still a shame tho. He was sorta hot. Sweet chest.