Adult film star Jay Hefner dies at 24 after ‘being shot dead while trying to protect his cousin’ [Video]

ADULT film star Jay Hefner died in a shooting while protecting his cousin, his family has confirmed.

Hefner whose real name is Saiveon Hopkins was killed in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Sunday in what his family has called a “senseless act of gun violence.”

The 24-year-old had arrived in the city from his home in Ontario, Canada to celebrate the birthday of a loved one.

A GoFundMe page set up to raise money for Hopkins’ family claimed he died while “trying to protect his cousin from physical violence.”

“It’s never easy to lose a loved one but losing a child is the most painful loss one can ever experience,” Kyra Miller, a close friend of Hopkins’ mother Jeni Brown wrote on the page.

There were …