A heartbreaking loss. Kellie Pickler’s husband, Kyle Jacobs, was a behind-the-scenes country star in his own right prior to his tragic death at age 49.On Friday, February 17, the Nashville Police Department told TMZ, who was first to report the news, that they got a call in the afternoon about a man who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on the American Idol alum’s property.
The Metropolitan Nashville Police later confirmed in a statement to Variety that it was Jacobs had died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.“Nashville’s Department of Emergency Communications received a 911 call at 1:21 p.m.
Friday from a home on Sneed Road in the police department’s West Precinct. Officers and Nashville Fire Department personnel responded and located resident Kyle Jacobs, 49, deceased from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in an upstairs bedroom/office.
His death is being investigated as an apparent suicide,” the statement read at the time. “Mr. Jacobs’ wife, Kellie Pickler, reported that she awoke a short time earlier, did not see her husband, and began looking for him.
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