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Longtime “Storage Wars” star Darrell Sheets has died in his home in western Arizona at age 67, local police confirmed.
The Lake Havasu City Police Department said authorities found Sheets dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in the city at around 2 a.m. on Wednesday, April 22.
His death remains under investigation, with his body being taken to the Mohave County Medical Examiner’s office, the department said in a news release. The Lake Havasu City Police Department is encouraging anyone with information to call them at (928) 855-1171.
Network A&E, which “Storage Wars” has run on for over 17 seasons, said in a statement to USA TODAY that they were “saddened by the passing of a beloved member of our Storage Wars family, Darrell ‘The Gambler’ Sheets. Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones during this difficult time.”
Before moving to Lake Havasu City, Sheets was born in California in 1958 and rose to TV fame through the beloved reality series, which follows buyers of abandoned and unopened storage lockers competing to obtain valuable contents in Southern California. He earned the nickname “The Gambler” on the series due to his appetite for high-risk purchases during auctions.
Sheets appeared in 163 episodes of “Storage Wars,” which premiered in 2010, but has only sporadically appeared in the latest seasons after he revealed he suffered a heart attack in 2019. Upon leaving the locker trade industry, he moved to Arizona and owned an antiques store.
He loved the “high” of storage auctions for 32 years, according to a bio of him on the “Storage Wars” website.
“The only thing I collect these days is dead presidents,” he said in his bio.
He was a father of two, including daughter Tiffany Shane Sheets and son Brandon Sheets, who also appeared in the A&E series following in his dad’s footsteps. Sheets’ bio indicates that he hoped to pass on the “adventure and education” of storage buying to Brandon.
