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‘Storage Wars’ prima Darrell Sheets was snapped successful a photograph smiling allegedly conscionable hours earlier his abrupt death.
The photo, which was obtained by TMZ, showed Sheets astatine his Lake Havasu, Arizona, ancient shop connected Tuesday, posing pinch 2 group and appearing to beryllium successful bully spirits. A witnesser told nan outlet that he was “upbeat and friendly.”
The reality prima died from an evident self-inflicted gunshot coiled to nan caput and his assemblage was discovered astatine astir 2 a.m. Wednesday morning, according to nan Lake Havasu Police Department. He was 67 years old.
Sheets was connected nan long-running reality show — which follows master buyers who bid connected repossessed, abandoned retention units successful California — from 2010 until 2023.
Sheets’ “Storage Wars” rival Brandi Passante shared an affectional tribute to him connected Wednesday, saying that she had known him a agelong clip and was “at a nonaccomplishment for words.”
She added that she had “unfortunately mislaid a genitor and a relative to akin situations.”
“I’m conscionable truthful very sorry, to perceive nan circumstances of his passing,” she wrote, noting that those who are likewise struggling tin scope retired for thief arsenic they aren’t alone.
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Fellow “Storage Wars” prima Rene Nezhoda had a much pointed message, saying successful an Instagram video Wednesday that he believed cyberbullying played a portion successful Sheets’ death.
“He had this guy, like, really, really tormenting him lately and cyberbullying [him],” Nezhoda stated.
“Darrell has been posting a batch astir nan feline that’s been cyberbullying him and tormenting him, and I really dream [law enforcement] look into that feline and it’s conscionable not a pass,” he continued.
Sergeant Kyle Ridgway, nationalist accusation serviceman for nan Lake Havasu City Police Department, told Page Six, “We are alert of these cyberbullying accusations and that is simply a portion of nan progressive investigation.”
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