{"id":2415820,"date":"2026-05-14T00:27:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2415820"},"modified":"2026-05-14T00:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T00:27:55","slug":"darrell-sheets-son-brandon-marks-late-dads-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/darrell-sheets-son-brandon-marks-late-dads-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Darrell Sheets&#8217; son Brandon marks late dad&#8217;s birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Brandon Sheets marked what would have been his father Darrell Sheets birthday, just weeks after the \u201cStorage Wars\u201d star\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/22\/celebrity-news\/storage-wars-star-darrell-sheets-dead-at-67\/\">sudden death<\/a> at age 67.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy Birthday @darrellgambler thank you for raising me to be the man I am today \u2026 wish that I could spend just one more day with you,\u201d Brandon <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYRRIHEAecf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">captioned a montage of photos<\/a> with Darrell, adding ZZ Top\u2019s \u201cJust Got Paid\u201d as a soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cI love you dad and Happy Birthday 5\/13\/1958 to 4\/22\/2026.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Prior to his father\u2019s special day, Brandon, 42, shared a video clip of family members singing him \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d as they waded in the pond via Instagram Stories.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Brandon Sheets, seen above with his father in a social media post, marked what would have been his late father\u2019s birthday on Wednesday.  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/Brandon Sheets<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201c[I] wish that I could spend just one more day with you,\u201d Brandon captioned the montage, which included the snapshot seen above. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/Brandon Sheets<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI know it\u2019s early but I always called the night before\u2026\u201d Brandon wrote atop the clip. \u201cHappy Birthday Big-D.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Brandon was his father\u2019s co-star on the long-running A&amp;E series between 2010 and 2016. Darrell went on to appear on the series until 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Darrell was found dead in his home in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, on April 22.  According to a Lake Havasu City Police Department press release, he died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.<\/p>\n<p>He was pronounced dead at the scene, and his body was turned over to the Mohave County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office for \u201cfurther investigation.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Brandon also shared a clip via Instagram Stories, as seen above, of Darrell\u2019s family singing \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d to him. <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/Brandon Sheets<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Darrell, seen above in a social media photo, was found dead of an apparent suicide on April 22.  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/Brandon Sheets<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Darrell\u2019s \u201cStorage Wars\u201d co-stars \u2014 including Rene Nezhoda \u2014 stepped forward in the hours following his death to address claims he was the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/22\/celebrity-news\/police-investigating-claim-storage-wars-star-darrell-sheets-was-cyberbullied-before-death\/\">targeted by cyberbullies<\/a>\u00a0prior to his death last month.<\/p>\n<p>Lake Havasu City Police Department PIO Sergeant Kyle Ridgway told Page Six in April that investigators were \u201caware of these cyberbullying accusations\u201d and said they are \u201ca part of the active investigation\u201d into the reality star\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement from authorities earlier this month, police said they were <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/05\/celebrity-news\/storage-wars-star-darrell-sheets-phone-being-analyzed-by-police-after-death-ruled-a-suicide\/\">analyzing Sheets\u2019 phone<\/a> as they continue to investigate cyberbullying allegations.<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/05\/celebrity-news\/storage-wars-star-darrell-sheets-phone-being-analyzed-by-police-after-death-ruled-a-suicide\/#\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Both Brandon and Darrell\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/01\/celebrity-news\/storage-wars-star-darrell-sheets-ex-wife-breaks-silence-on-his-death\/\">ex-wife, Kimber Wuerfel<\/a>, took to social media earlier this month to mourn the \u201cStorage Wars\u201d star following his death.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Investigators are looking into cyberbullying accusations leading up to the reality star\u2019s death. He\u2019s seen above in a 2019 Instagram upload.  <span class=\"credit\">darrellgambler\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Brandon, seen above with Darrell in the birthday montage, previously mourned his father with a heartfelt social media post earlier this month.  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/Brandon Sheets<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDarrell gave us so many moments of laughter, connection, and life,\u201d Wuerfel wrote in part. \u201cMay the memories you hold of him stay close to your heart, as mine will stay with me forever.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Alongside a carousel of snapshots with Darrell, Brandon also acknowledged his father\u2019s death. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy heart is so broken\u2026.I love you Dad and I will do my best to live in your honor and respect our Family,\u201d he wrote earlier this month. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s all continue to build those memories and keep the legacy that is \u2018Darrell (The Gambler) Sheets. I cant answer everyone\u2019s questions or concerns right now, I think we all just need time to process and remember all the good that my Father was and will continue to be through my Son and I.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cThe love we all have for this man and all his kindness is only a small portion of who he truly is.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Sheets marked what would have been his father Darrell Sheets birthday, just weeks after the \u201cStorage Wars\u201d star\u2019s sudden death at age 67. \u201cHappy Birthday @darrellgambler thank you for raising me to be the man I am today \u2026 wish that I could spend just one more day with you,\u201d Brandon captioned a montage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2415821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[304752,30058,22062,70626,24003,21787,24758,21913],"class_list":["post-2415820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-birthdays","tag-celebrity-children","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-families","tag-celebrity-news","tag-celebrity-social-media","tag-reality-stars","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Darrell-Sheets-son-Brandon-marks-late-dads-birthday.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2415820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2415822,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415820\/revisions\/2415822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2415821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}