Kyle Jacobs, a songwriter and the husband of nation singer Kellie Pickler, died on the age of 49 on Friday, in accordance with police. His dying is being investigated as a suicide, police mentioned.
Police responded to the couple’s residence after receiving a name from Pickler’s assistant at round 1:21 p.m.
Jacobs was discovered by regulation enforcement and hearth division personnel with “an obvious self-inflicted gunshot wound” in an upstairs room within the Nashville residence he shared with Pickler, the Metro Nashville Police Division mentioned in a press release.
Pickler reported to police that she wakened that day a short while earlier and couldn’t discover Jacobs. She started searching for him, and when she and a private assistant weren’t in a position to open the door of an upstairs room, her assistant referred to as 911.
Jacobs and Pickler had been married in 2011.
Pickler, who grew up in North Carolina, rose to fame as a contestant on American Idol’s fifth season, the place she completed sixth place. She then went on to launch 4 studio albums — the third, launched in 2011 was named no. 1 nation album of the 12 months by Rolling Stone and was included on the Washington Submit’s “Better of 2012” checklist, in accordance with Pickler’s web site.
Jacobs was a songwriter, collaborating with nation artists like his spouse, Lee Brice, Eli Younger Band and Raleigh Keegan, in accordance with his Spotify profile. He had just lately took to Instagram to have fun a tune he helped write for Lee Brice going platinum.
The couple documented their lives on the CTM docu-comedy collection “I Love Kellie Pickler” from 2015 to 2017.
In the event you or somebody you already know is in disaster, name 988 to achieve the Suicide and Disaster Lifeline. You too can name the Nationwide Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255, textual content HOME to 741741 or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for extra assets.
