Overview
- Police in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, found Sheets at his home around 2 a.m. Wednesday and said he had an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
- The department’s Criminal Investigations Unit took over the case, transferred the body to the Mohave County Medical Examiner, and urged anyone with information to contact police.
- A&E issued a condolence statement calling Sheets a beloved member of the Storage Wars family and offering support to his loved ones.
- Sheets appeared in roughly 163 episodes of the A&E series from 2010 to 2023, was known as “The Gambler” for bold bidding, and later ran the Havasu Show Me Your Junk antiques shop in Lake Havasu City.
- He had disclosed in 2019 that he suffered a heart attack along with congestive heart failure and lung issues, which preceded his retirement from regular television work.