Darrell Sheets, one of the stars of the long-running reality series “Storage Wars,” left a possible suicide note referencing his cyberbully, according to an incident report about Sheets’ death released this week by the Lake Havasu City Police Department.Subscribe to read this story ad-freeGet unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.Sheets, 67, was found dead at his Arizona home on April 22.
In May, the Lake Havasu City Police Department said in a release that it had gotten confirmation from the Mohave County Medical Examiner’s Office that Sheets had died by suicide.Police also said at the time that they were looking into “allegations of cyberbullying” in relation to Sheets’ case.According to the incident report provided to NBC News on Thursday, police found a note hidden in a bathroom closet next to the room where Sheets was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.It was written in what appeared to be shaky handwriting and said “I could not take anymore the Facebook bulling.”Police also interviewed the alleged bully, according to the incident report.Officials said he was not cooperative and denied having anything to do with Sheets’ death.
He said he was “nowhere near” Arizona when Sheets died.He then told police he had been receiving death threats and refused to answer more questions, according to the report.
Police also spoke to Sheets’ girlfriend, who told officials that she interacted with him shortly before his death.That night, after dinner, she said he was sitting in the garage and was texting his daughter-in-law, who told him that his girlfriend was “suspicious and that she was stealing money from” him.
His girlfriend told police he “was sad and upset” about the messages.She then left to pick up Sheets’ granddaughter from work around 8 p.m.
When she returned, she said Sheets was in bed.Later that night, she said he got out of bed, waking his girlfriend.
She went to look for him and found him ...