{"id":33546,"date":"2023-02-21T05:45:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T10:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=33546"},"modified":"2023-02-21T06:20:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T11:20:51","slug":"kellie-picklers-husband-kyle-jacobs-dead-at-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/02\/kellie-picklers-husband-kyle-jacobs-dead-at-49\/","title":{"rendered":"Kellie Pickler&#8217;s Husband Kyle Jacobs, Dead At 49"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kellie Pickler\u2019s husband, Kyle Jacobs was found dead from an apparent suicide in the couple\u2019s Nashville home on Friday, February 17th.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from the Metro Police Department, officers and the Nashville Fire Department responded and said he apparently suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound.<\/p>\n<p>Kellie had reported that she awoke a short time earlier, did not see her husband, and began looking for him.<\/p>\n<p>After she and her personal assistant could not open the door to the upstairs bedroom\/office, the assistant telephoned 911.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1627122404257587200&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Kyle co-wrote and produced for several artists and is one of three writers on Garth Brooks\u2019 \u201cMore Than a Memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The day before Kyle\u2019s death, he posted on Instagram celebrating Lee Brice\u2019s album Hey World being certified platinum. He wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPlatinum?! SWEEEET!!! An amazing crew of incredibly talented peeps put this one together\u2026Deeply honored to be a creative part of it\u2026Thank you Jesus!!!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CotUKJyuW8W\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>Jacobs co-wrote three songs, played acoustic guitar, sang backup, and also produced the album.<\/p>\n<p>Kellie and Kyle just celebrated their 12th wedding anniversary last month. he was 49.<\/p>\n<p>A few songs that Kyle Jacobs co-wrote:<\/p>\n<p>Garth Brooks, \u201cMore than A Memory\u201d<br \/>\nGeorge Strait, \u201cWhen The Credits Roll<br \/>\nEli Young Band, \u201cDust\u201d<br \/>\nScotty McCreery, \u201cThe Dash\u201d<br \/>\nLee Brice, \u201cRumor\u201d<br \/>\nKellie Pickler, \u201cThe Woman I Am\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kellie Pickler\u2019s husband, Kyle Jacobs was found dead from an apparent suicide in the couple\u2019s Nashville home on Friday, February 17th.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":33547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4494,4493,2734],"class_list":["post-33546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-kellie-pickler","tag-kyle-jacobs","tag-suicide"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 17:42:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/02\/kellie-picklers-husband-kyle-jacobs-dead-at-49\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33549,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33546\/revisions\/33549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}