UPDATE: The Mohave County Medical Examiner’s Office in Arizona has confirmed that Storage Wars star Darrell Sheets took his own life last month.
The manner of death was confirmed to TMZ. Arizona law enforcement officials found Sheets at his home in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, on April 22, and said at the time that he appeared to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Sheets was 67.
PREVIOUS, April 22: Darrell Sheets, a longtime regular on the A&E reality competition series Storage Wars died early this morning at his home in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. He was 67.
Lake Havasu City police said he died of what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
According to a police department statement obtained by Deadline, officers were dispatched to Sheets’ home around 2 a.m. local time, where they discovered Sheets and pronounced him dead. The department’s Criminal Investigations Unit was notified and responded to the scene to assume the investigation, which is ongoing.
Sheets’ body was turned over to the Mohave County Medical Examiner’s office for further investigation.
Born on May 13, 1958, in California, Sheets appeared on 163 episodes of Storage Wars between 2010 and 2023, vying with other buyers of abandoned and unopened storage lockers being auctioned. An episode’s winner is determined by the value of the lockers’ contents.
After suffering a heart attack in 2019, Sheets largely retired from the locker trade, appearing on the show only infrequently in recent years after moving to Arizona, where he ran an antiques store.
In a short bio on the series’ website, Sheets is described as having been “addicted to the ‘high’ of storage auctions for 32 years.”
“While others have turned the gambling side of storage buying into steady businesses,” the bio states, “Darrell is always going for the ‘big hit.’ Boasting a big game, Darrell is quick to tell you about the four Picassos and the world’s most lucrative comic book collection that he has scored through storage auctions.”
The bio concludes, “After years in the business, Darrell no longer collects: ‘The only thing I collect these days is dead presidents.’ Darrell takes pride in the adventure and education storage buying has provided him. It’s a lifestyle and skill set he hopes to pass on to his son [Brandon].”
Complete information on survivors was not immediately available.
If you or anyone you know are having thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 to reach the National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources.
