{"id":2416468,"date":"2026-05-14T13:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2416468"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:31:17","slug":"son-of-storage-wars-star-darrell-sheets-shares-emotional-birthday-tribute-to-late-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/son-of-storage-wars-star-darrell-sheets-shares-emotional-birthday-tribute-to-late-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Son of \u2018Storage Wars\u2019 Star Darrell Sheets Shares Emotional Birthday Tribute to Late Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/tv\/articles\/storage-wars-brandon-sheets-speaks-115917015.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Brandon Sheets;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Brandon Sheets&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Brandon Sheets<\/a> took to Instagram on Wednesday (May 13) to share an emotional birthday message to his late father, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/darrell-sheets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Darrell Sheets;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Darrell Sheets&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Darrell Sheets<\/a>, who <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/tv\/articles\/darrell-sheets-dies-storage-wars-194429501.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:died at 67-years-old on April 22.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;died at 67-years-old on April 22.&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">died at 67-years-old on April 22.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cHappy Birthday @darrellgambler thank you for raising me to be the man I am today. . .wish that I could spend just one more day with you,\u201d Brandon wrote alongside a video montage set to ZZ Top\u2019s \u201cJust Got Paid.\u201d The video included photos of Darrell with his children, grandchildren, and other family members throughout the years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI love you dad and Happy Birthday 5\/13\/1958 to 4\/22\/2026,\u201d Brandon concluded the post. The final image in the montage showed Darrell on his boat, with the words \u201cRest now pop\u201d captioned over the photo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Darrell was\u00a0found dead\u00a0on Wednesday, April 22, at his residence in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. In a statement, the Lake Havasu City Police Department said officers responded to reports of a deceased individual around 2 a.m. local time and found \u201ca male subject who suffered from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After the news broke, fellow <em>Storage Wars<\/em> star\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/rene-nezhoda\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Ren\u00e9 Nezhoda;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Ren\u00e9 Nezhoda&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Ren\u00e9 Nezhoda<\/a>\u00a0claimed that Darrell was the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/tv\/articles\/did-storage-wars-star-darrell-113705072.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:victim of cyberbullying;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;victim of cyberbullying&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">victim of cyberbullying<\/a>\u00a0and urged police to look into the accusations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cYou never know what demons somebody faces and what they go through and what you might push them through,\u201d Nezhoda wrote on Instagram at the time. \u201cAnd I also highly encourage law enforcement \u2014 Darrell has been posting a lot about the guy that has been cyberbullying and torturing him, and I really hope they look into that guy, and that\u2019s just not a pass. Because it\u2019s just not right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a statement to\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/late-darrell-sheets-phone-to-be-analyzed-amid-bullying-claims\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Us Weekly;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Us Weekly&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Us Weekly<\/a>, the Lake Havasu City Police Department said it \u201ccontinues to actively investigate allegations of cyberbullying associated with this case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Brandon previously <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/tv\/articles\/storage-wars-brandon-sheets-speaks-115917015.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:opened up;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;opened up&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">opened up<\/a> about his father\u2019s passing in an April 30 Instagram post, writing, \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. Let\u2019s all continue to build those memories and keep the legacy that is \u2018Darrell (The Gambler) Sheets.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He added, \u201cI 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. The 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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the latest entertainment news on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:TV Insider;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;TV Insider&quot;}\" class=\"link \">TV Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\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 www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Sheets took to Instagram on Wednesday (May 13) to share an emotional birthday message to his late father, Darrell Sheets, who died at 67-years-old on April 22. \u201cHappy Birthday @darrellgambler thank you for raising me to be the man I am today. . .wish that I could spend just one more day with you,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2416469,"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":[472930,473039,465515,389576],"class_list":["post-2416468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-brandon-sheets","tag-darrell-sheets","tag-lake-havasu-city","tag-video-montage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Son-of-\u2018Storage-Wars-Star-Darrell-Sheets-Shares-Emotional-Birthday.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416468","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=2416468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2416470,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416468\/revisions\/2416470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2416469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2416468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2416468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}