UPDATE
4:31 PM PT — The Nashville Police Department has announced Kellie’s husband, Kyle Jacobs, is the man dead by suicide at the couple’s Nashville home, he shot himself in an upstairs bedroom/office inside the home.
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UPDATE
Cops say Kellie was asleep, but woke a short time before the incident, when she did not see Kyle, she began looking for him … when she and an assistant were unable to open the upstairs bedroom door, they called 911.
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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.
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Jacobs was 49. RIP.
Kellie Pickler‘s Nashville home is the center of a tragic crime scene, as a man has shot and killed himself on the property.
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.
It’s not yet been revealed who the man is, but we know Pickler and her husband, Kyle Jacobs, live at the address.
Pickler placed 6th on Season 5 of “American Idol” back in 2015 … 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.
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