{"id":470571,"date":"2026-05-06T03:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T03:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/470571\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T03:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T03:20:11","slug":"storage-wars-star-darrell-sheets-cyberbullying-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/470571\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Storage Wars&#8217; Star Darrell Sheets: Cyberbullying Under Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAllegations that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/storage-wars\/\" id=\"auto-tag_storage-wars\" data-tag=\"storage-wars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Storage Wars<\/a>\u201d star <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/darrell-sheets\/\" id=\"auto-tag_darrell-sheets\" data-tag=\"darrell-sheets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darrell Sheets<\/a> was being cyber-bullied continue to be investigated in the wake of his April 22 death, Lake Havasu Police said Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAdditionally, Sheets\u2019 death has been officially ruled a suicide, said Lake Havasu Police Sergeant Kyle Ridgway. The 67-year-old reality TV star was found dead of what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the Arizona town where he owned an antique business.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cOur agency continues to actively investigate allegations of cyberbullying associated with this case. The Criminal Investigations Unit has submitted Darrell Sheets\u2019 cellular phone for forensic analysis and is currently awaiting the results,\u201d said Lake Havasu police, \u201cThis investigative step is essential to advancing the case. Additional information will be released as it becomes available.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tPolice also said that although the death has been ruled a suicide, toxicology results are still pending. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSeveral people who appeared on the show, including Laura Dotson, told media that Sheets had been dealing with online harassment for at least three years. Dotson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1431317\/storage-wars-darrell-sheets-cyberbullied-before-death-by-suicide\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told US Magazine<\/a> after his death, \u201cHe was terrified for his life [and] for the people around him. He didn\u2019t know why he was being targeted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSheets was a major figure on \u201cStorage Wars\u201d from 2010 to 2023, where he was known for making risky bids, and made appearances on \u201cThe Tonight Show With Jay Leno\u201d and on Raechel Ray\u2019s show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIf you or anyone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com\/resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allegations that \u201cStorage Wars\u201d star Darrell Sheets was being cyber-bullied continue to be investigated in the wake of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[197895,18,117,19,17,199973,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-470571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-darrell-sheets","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-storage-wars","14":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116525480579687581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}