‘Storage Wars’ stars reveal why Darrell Sheets was ‘terrified for his life’ before his unexpected death

“Storage Wars” cast members Laura and Dan Dotson claim that prior to Darrell Sheets’ tragic decease astatine property 67, nan reality star feared for his life due to alleged cyberbullying.

“His family told america that this has been happening for 3 years,” Laura told Us Weekly connected Friday. “[It happens to] moreover beardown men that you deliberation aren’t gonna get their feelings hurt. Cyberbullying is simply a existent thing. This made him consciousness little than, and it really evidently bothered him. He was terrified for his life [and] for nan group astir him. He didn’t cognize why he was being targeted.”

Sheets was recovered dormant successful his location successful Lake Havasu City, Arizona, connected Wednesday.

According to a property merchandise from nan Lake Havasu City Police Department, nan business proprietor died from an evident self-inflicted gunshot coiled to nan head.

Authorities said Sheets was pronounced dormant astatine nan segment and his assemblage was turned complete to nan Mohave County Medical Examiner’s Office for “further investigation.”

“He had different things also,” Laura — who appeared connected nan A&E deed alongside her hubby Dan and Sheets anterior to his 2023 status — continued.

She added that “his wellness and definite things” could person besides “contributed” to his passing.

“Relationships, emotion interests and worldly that would spell up and down, but [he] truly, genuinely was a wonderful, loving personification who believed successful God,” Laura detailed.

The mates besides reflected connected losing different friend to termination — pinch Dan remembering that Sheets was successful disbelief.

“He says, ‘I can’t judge anybody that could do that,’” Laura recalled. “‘They must person truthful overmuch pain.’ So it was truthful difficult for america to really judge that this happened.”

Just weeks earlier his death, Sheets said retired astir nan alleged cyberbullies in a Facebook post, per Us Weekly.

“I person been hacked by a very evil person,” he penned successful March. “The clown. [The posts] are not done by me, they are being done by … very evil people. I’m not gay, I person made nary posts astir immoderate children’s arcade owner, etc. I’m highly sorry and sick complete this.”

Sheets said that while it wasn’t him, “people are showing up” to his activity wanting to “harm” him.

“The constabulary are alert of this but [their] hands are tied because Facebook allows this and it is very bad,” he wrote.

Allegedly, nan tv personality’s “cyberbully stalker” had harassed others successful nan area arsenic well.

“He has been going aft different mini businesses successful municipality and harassing them, utilizing my name,” Sheets claimed. “It is not me! He has extorted money from galore group successful this municipality acting for illustration a handyman. This has been going connected for 3 years pinch him, and nan things he says are very damaging. This is simply a felony called cyberbullying.”

Sergeant Kyle Ridgway, nationalist accusation serviceman for nan Lake Havasu City Police Department successful Arizona, told Page Six Wednesday, “We are alert of these cyberbullying accusations and that is simply a portion of nan progressive investigation.”

Prior to his passing, Sheets had retired to Arizona and ran nan ancient shop Havasu Show Me Your Junk.

The A&E prima was a fan-favorite connected “Storage Wars,” a show that follows master buyers who bid connected chartless contents recovered successful abandoned retention units.

Sheets was featured successful 163 episodes of nan bid betwixt 2010 and 2023 alongside his boy Brandon.

While connected nan series, he earned nan nickname “The Gambler” owed to his predilection to overbid for units based connected a gut instinct.