{"id":792188,"date":"2026-07-10T05:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/792188\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T05:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:56:17","slug":"darrell-sheets-girlfriend-tells-cops-he-had-taken-his-life-after-hearing-gunshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/792188\/","title":{"rendered":"Darrell Sheets&#8217; Girlfriend Tells Cops He Had Taken His Life After Hearing Gunshot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/66f06195bd6144808144c5ad409e1171_md.png\" alt=\"Darrell-Sheets-audio-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/darrell-sheets\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darrell Sheets<\/a>&#8216; girlfriend was in absolute shock when she heard a gunshot go off in her house &#8230; and she told cops she believed the &#8216;Storage Wars&#8217; star had just killed himself.<\/p>\n<p>TMZ obtained the 911 call the woman placed after Darrell&#8217;s suicide &#8230; and she&#8217;s completely beside herself.<\/p>\n<p>She tells police Darrell just took his own life, explaining &#8230; &#8220;I just heard a gun go off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Darrell&#8217;s GF says he never threatened to kill himself, but was struggling with insomnia and had been &#8220;just frustrated&#8221; with his lack of sleep and his kid &#8230; calling it all &#8220;terrible, terrible s***.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/9f9839e6b2114a75bc5f64654b2dc589_md.jpg\" alt=\"darrell-sheets-bodycam-kal-07-09-2026\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cops arrived on scene shortly after &#8230; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/07\/09\/darrell-sheets-instantly-recognized-by-shocked-cop-at-death-scene\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">discovered<\/a> the &#8220;Storage Wars&#8221; star&#8217;s body. Police told us he was found with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.<\/p>\n<p>The 67-year-old died in his Lake Havasu home on April 22 in what was later ruled a suicide.<\/p>\n<p>If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/988lifeline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">988lifeline.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Play video content Darrell Sheets&#8216; girlfriend was in absolute shock when she heard a gunshot go off in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-792188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}