In the early 1980s this ruggedly handsome young man of Norwegian parentage was seen as the next big thing then suddenly he was dead from an accident via a selfinflicted gunshot wound Hexum was born and raised in Englewood New Jersey where he was a musically gifted student at school playing both the horn and the violin in the school orchestra and even the piano at home He then attended Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio before transferring across to Michigan State University studying biomedical engineering and then switching over to philosophy While at MSU Hexum played football and DJd at several local radio stations under the name of Yukon Jack before being discovered by John Travoltas manager Bob LeMond Hexum allegedly turned down plenty of opportunities to appear in shows such as The Dukes of Hazzard 1979 CHiPs 1977 and many daytime soap operas before finally making his debut in the television series Voyagers 1982 as time traveler Phineas Bogg He was then cast as hunk Tyler Burnett alongside Joan Collins in Making of a Male Model 1983 and then as exGreen Beret Mac Harper in the television series Cover Up Pilot 1984 However on October 12 1984 after a long and draining days shooting on the set of Cover Up Pilot 1984 Hexum became bored with the extensive delays and jokingly put a prop 44 magnum revolver to his temple and pulled the trigger The gun fired and the wadding from the blank cartridge shattered his skull whereupon the mortally injured Hexum was rushed via ambulance to hospital to undergo extensive surgery Despite five hours of work the chief surgeon Dr David Ditsworth described the damage to Hexums brain as lifeending One week later on October 18 he was taken off life support and pronounced dead However Hexums commitment to organ donation meant five other lives were assisted or saved with organs harvested from him The youthful and charming Hexum was dead at only 26 years of age
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