Hayden Panettiere‘s youthful brother, Jansen Panettiere, has died at the age of 28, ET has confirmed.

Jansen died over the weekend in New York, in accordance with TMZ, which used to be the first to spoil the news. The outlet reviews that regulation enforcement used to be referred to as a house Sunday night time around 5:30 PM and whilst no reliable reason for loss of life has been released, there is no foul play suspected in Jansen’s death.

ET has reached out to Hayden’s reps for a statement.

Jansen, who is 5 years youthful than Hayden, used to be an actor. He had a number of movie and TV roles in the course of the early 2000s, with credit on Even Stevens, The X’s, Tiger Cruise, Racing Stripes, The Martial Arts Kid, The Walking Dead, Perfect Game, and How High two His most current function was once in the 2022 Christmas film, Love and Love Not.

In January, Jansen took to Instagram to share a picture with Hayden, the place she is viewed smiling whilst slicing his hair. “Not the first haircut she’s tried to supply me,” he captioned the black-and-white picture.

Jansen is survived by means of Hayden and their parents, Lesley Vogel and Skip Panettiere.