Just one day before Buckwild star Shain Gandee tragically died, he made a trip from West Virginia to Ohio to help out his second cousin who was opening a general store, and Breaking Celebrity News has an exclusive photo and interview with the cousin Shain went out of his way to help.

On March 30, Shain, 21, made an appearance at the grand opening of his cousin Ashley Gandee Lewis' Gandee's General Store in Crown City, Ohio, to help draw a crowd for the event and Ashley tells Breaking Celebrity News that fans showed up from as far as Texas to meet the MTV reality star. Shain was found dead on Monday in West Virginia in a Ford Bronco with his uncle and a family friend.

"We had the grand opening with him, smiling, signing autographs, and just being his fun self," Ashlee told Breaking Celebrity News exclusively. "We actually had people here from Texas, from Dayton, Ohio, from Pennsylvania. People drove hundreds of miles just to meet him because he was such a lovable guy.

"I'm completely devastated and I know that his entire family is too. It's just totally unexpected," Ashley said of Shain's shocking death. The MTV star was last seen at a local West Virginia bar on Sunday at 3 a.m. Shain and his uncle reportedly said they were going off-roading. Family members spent Sunday looking for them and then reported them missing.

As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, Shain, his uncle David Gandee,48, and family friend Robert Myers, 27, were discovered in Shain's car — but the circumstances surrounding