The latest episode of Storage Wars: Back to the Locker included a tribute to late series personality Darrell Sheets just days after his untimely death.
The Saturday, April 25, episode of the A+E docuseries ended with a title card that read “In Memoriam Darrell Sheets” alongside the dates of Sheets’ birth and death.
“On April 22, 2026, at approximately 0200 hours, officers with the Lake Havasu City Police Department were dispatched to a residence in the 1500 block of Chandler Drive in reference to a reported deceased individual,” a statement from Arizona’s Lake Havasu City Police Department read. “Upon arrival, officers located a male subject who suffered from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. The male was pronounced deceased on scene, and the Lake Havasu City Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Unit was notified and responded to the scene to assume the investigation.”
Darrell Sheets — the fan-favorite Storage Wars cast member known to viewers as “The Gambler” — died at age 67 in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Us Weekly confirmed the news on April 22, 2026, that Sheets died by an apparent suicide. His death has prompted grief from costars and a police investigation into cyberbullying claims […]
Sheets was known as “The Gambler,” appearing on Storage Wars between 2010 and 2023. On the show, cast members like Sheets bid on abandoned and unopened storage lockers in auctions.
“We are saddened by the passing of a beloved member of our Storage Wars family, Darrell ‘The Gambler’ Sheets,” a spokesperson for A&E told Us on Wednesday. “Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones during this difficult time.”
Sheets, who is survived by his two children, had previously been candid about his mental health struggles.
“Depression is the Devil’s way of attacking us,” Sheets wrote via Instagram in June 2018. “It knows no mercy, it takes our smiles it comes and goes, it ruins our relationships, it takes away our happiness, it leads to suicide in some cases, it destroys all thoughts of positivity, it is a 24/7 battle and allows no rest for the suffering.”
Sheets later claimed that he was cyberbullied in the months before his death.
Storage Wars alum Darrell Sheets confronted alleged cyberbullies in the weeks before his death at 67. “I have been hacked by a very evil person,” Sheets wrote via Facebook on March 9. “The clown. [The posts] are not done by me, they are being done by … very evil people. I’m not gay, I have […]
“He was impersonating him with phone calls, messages, emails, websites … He flat out said, ‘I’m gonna ruin you,” Sheets’ onscreen rival Rene Nezhodaexclusively told Uson Friday, April 24 regarding the accusations. “I mean, all you have to do is go to Darrell’s last few messages on Facebook. He kind of withdrew from social media.”
Several of Sheets and Nezhoda’s costars have also claimed to receive bullying messages online.
“We’ve all had a little bit of that,” Dave Hester told Us on Friday in a separate interview. “We’ve been at this [for] 16, 17 years, and so there’s always people [who] want to get on the internet and say rude things, but I don’t even pay attention to it.”
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