4:31 PM PT, The Nashville Police Division has declared Kellie Pickler’s significant other, Kyle Jacobs, is the man dead by self destruction at the couple’s Nashville home, he shot himself in a higher up room/office inside the home.
Cops say Kellie was sleeping yet woke a brief time frame before the episode, when she didn’t see Kyle, she started searching for him … at the point when she and a partner couldn’t open the higher up room entryway, they called 911.
Kellie and Kyle got married back in 2011, and both starred on “I Love Kellie Pickler” for 3 seasons starting back in 2015.
Kyle worked as a country music songwriter – with credits tied to stars including Tim McGraw, Kelly Clarkson, Darius Rucker, Garth Brooks and others. Jacobs was 49.
A rep for The Nashville Police Department tells us they got a call to Pickler’s home Friday afternoon for an apparent suicide after a male shot himself.
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Pickler placed 6th on Season 5 of “American Idol” back in 2006 … but went on to have a fairly successful country career of her own. She currently hosts SiriusXM’s “The Highway” radio show throughout the week.
Jacobs was found “deceased from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot in an upstairs bedroom/office,” a representative for the Nashville Police Department confirmed to Fox News Digital on Friday.
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“His death is being investigated as an apparent suicide,” the statement added.
“Mr. Jacobs’ wife, Kellie Pickler, reported that she awoke a short time earlier, did not see her husband, and began looking for him. After she and her personal assistant were unable to open the door to the upstairs bedroom/office, the assistant telephoned 911,” the statement concluded.