New details have been released in the death of Storage Wars personality Darrell Sheets, after police made public bodycam footage and 911 audio from the day he died.
Sheets’ girlfriend, whose name has not been publicly disclosed, alerted authorities in Lake Havasu City after the 67-year-old died by suicide at his Arizona home on April 22, 2026.
“I think he just killed himself … I just heard a gun go off,” the woman is heard telling a 911 dispatcher in audio obtained Thursday by TMZ.
When the dispatcher asked whether she had seen what happened, the woman replied that she “didn’t want to look.”
The dispatcher urged her to take deep breaths as she struggled to process the situation. The woman said she “couldn’t believe” what had happened and indicated that Sheets was in his home office while she was in the garage.
A request for additional information has been sent to the Lake Havasu City Police Department.
New details have emerged in the death of Storage Wars star Darrell Sheets after police released bodycam footage and 911 audio from the day he died; Sheets is pictured in 2010
Sheets’ girlfriend told authorities that the reality TV star had not previously threatened to take his own life.
However, she did not that Sheets had been ‘frustrated’ by a ‘lack of sleep’ and family troubles, describing the situation as ‘terrible, terrible s***.’
At that point, Sheets’ girlfriend told the operator that she had seen flashing lights on the horizon as first responders arrived to the scene on April 22.
In bodycam footage TMZ obtained, first responders revealed that Sheets still had the gun he used in his hand when they discovered his body.
First responders explained that they were cautious about approaching Sheets due to the potential of rigor mortis causing the late star’s finger to touch the trigger of the firearm.
One of the first responders recognized Sheets from his career on TV, noting his fame from Storage Wars.
The officer explained how Sheets and his son were the people who would purchase the storage units seen on the program.
According to an incident report, Sheets left a suicide note which referenced cyberbullying he said he had been dealing with ahead of his tragic death, according to the authorities.
It read, ‘I could not take anymore the Facebook bullying, f*** you [redacted].’
Prosecutors have passed on filing charges related to the alleged bullying, police said in the report reviewed by TMZ, as the Lake Havasu City Attorney’s Office said the case was stymied in the wake of Sheets’ death because he could not provide further information about his claims.
Sheets’ distraught girlfriend, whose identity has not yet been made public, reported the 67-year-old’s death to Lake Havasu City authorities after he took his own life via a self-inflicted gunshot wound on April 22
The reality star was seen in 2013 in NYC at an A&E event
He told his girlfriend to ‘go back to bed’ before she heard the sound of a gunshot, the report stated.
Sheets had been dealing with insomnia in the months prior to his passing, as his girlfriend told investigators that stress often left him unable to sleep, according to the report.
Sheets appeared on a total of 163 Storage Wars episodes on A&E from 2010 to 2023.
A bio on the show’s website touted his business skills, ‘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.’
Sheets suffered a heart attack in 2019, and he went on to run a shop called Havasu Show Me Your Junk in Arizona in subsequent years.
He had been candid about his past battles with depression, calling it ‘the Devil’s way of attacking us’ in a powerful Instagram post from June 2018.
‘It knows no mercy, it takes our smiles it comes and goes, it ruins our relationships, it takes away our happiness, it leads to suicide in some cases, it destroys all thoughts of positivity, it is a 24/7 battle and allows no rest for the suffering [sic],’ Sheets wrote. ‘It’s a very real deal.’
The TV personality advised his followers, ‘So please next time someone tells you they have Depression, be kind and know that they spend every minute they have breathing, suffering!!!’
If you or someone you know needs help, please call or text the confidential 24/7 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline in the US on 988. There is also an online chat available at 988lifeline.org.
