Shain Gandee , one of the stars of the MTV reality show `` Buckwild , '' and two other people died of carbon monoxide poisoning , the sheriff 's office in Kanawha County , West Virginia , said Tuesday . The deaths , discovered Monday , were labeled as accidental , according to preliminary findings from an autopsy report . Gandee , 21 , was found dead in a vehicle along with his uncle , David Dwight Gandee , 48 , and Donald Robert Myers , 27 , authorities said . `` This is a very sad and tragic event , '' Kanawha County Commissioner Kent Carper said Monday . `` We live in a very small community . Our thoughts and prayers are with the Gandee family . '' On Monday , the sheriff 's office said they had `` received word of a disabled vehicle in a wooded area '' near Sissonville , that deputies and Sissonville Volunteer Fire Department personnel used all-terrain vehicles to reach the 1984 Ford Bronco belonging to the Gandee family . Inside the MTV show 'Buckwild ' `` Inside were the bodies of three people , '' the sheriff 's office statement said . Later , the sheriff 's office said the vehicle was partially submerged in mud . It was uneven but upright ; its muffler was below the surface . Mud covered the lower part of the Bronco 's passenger side door , but the driver 's side , where the younger Gandee sat , was free . Shain Gandee was one of the nine cast members of `` Buckwild . '' The show follows a group of young adults trying to have fun in Sissonville , pulling stunts such as turning a dump truck into a swimming pool or just riding around the woods on their ATVs . Gandee was billed as a former high school prom king who had done `` every job from coal mining to being a garbage man . '' MTV released a statement about Gandee : `` We are shocked and saddened by the terrible news about Shain Gandee , and those involved in this tragic incident . We are waiting for more information but at this time , our main concern is for the Gandee family and their friends . Our thoughts and prayers are with them . Shain had a magnetic personality , with a passion for life that touched everyone he met and we will miss him dearly . '' Some of Gandee 's fellow cast members took to social media to express their feelings . `` RIP Shain Gandee , '' Ashley Whitt tweeted . `` You were the most amazing person I 've ever known . I know you will be watching over ... '' `` This is the emptiest I 've ever felt , '' Cara Parrish tweeted . `` Please pray for Dale and Loretta [ Gandee 's parents ] . '' `` Buckwild '' has been compared to MTV 's reality show `` Jersey Shore , '' and on Monday , one of that show 's stars , Jenni `` JWoww '' Farley , tweeted , `` That 's awful that shain passed ... He was just a baby . Rip . # Buckwild . ''
Shain Gandee was one of nine cast members of the MTV reality show `` Buckwild '' He was found dead along with two other men outside Sissonville , West Virginia . The deaths were labeled as accidental , according to preliminary autopsy findings . `` This is the emptiest I 've ever felt , '' a fellow cast member tweets .