Overview
- Darrell Sheets was found dead at his Lake Havasu City home on April 22 and the Mohave County Medical Examiner formally ruled the cause of death a suicide on May 5.
- The Lake Havasu City Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Unit is continuing work on the case and has submitted Sheets’s cellphone for digital-forensic analysis.
- Police are examining claims that Sheets faced online harassment before his death, a line of inquiry that remains active and is driving parts of the forensic work.
- Family, friends and former Storage Wars castmates held a celebration of life on June 29 in Huntington Beach where memorabilia, personalized keepsakes and public tributes marked his career.
- Sheets’s family says it will keep his social accounts active and plans to reopen his Havasu Show Me Your Junk shop, moves the family says will preserve his legacy for fans and help manage ongoing estate matters.