Gypsy Rose’s Ex-Fiancé Ken Urker Found Dead After Suicide Threats, Gun Found, Cops Says

Gypsy Rose Blanchard‘s ex-fiancé Ken Urker was found dead inside his Louisiana home after making suicide threats after cops were warned he owned a gun … GWN has learned.

According to law enforcement records obtained by GWN, deputies responded to Urker’s Raceland residence Thursday evening for a welfare check after family members said he wasn’t answering his phone or showing up for work.

The caller told dispatchers Urker had threatened to commit suicide and owned a gun. The caller also told cops he was in a “dark place.” Later, another caller told authorities Urker had “killed himself” and wanted to know if he was okay.

Family friends eventually entered the home through a bedroom window and found Urker unconscious and cold to the touch on his bed. Deputies found a holstered handgun on the nightstand next to a syringe and two shot glasses.

As we first reported … the report says deputies found drug paraphernalia and a brown powdery substance in the bathroom. The report does not say the gun was fired or that it was used in Urker’s death.

GWN broke the story … Urker was found dead Thursday night. Family sources told us he was found unresponsive at a Louisiana home on his birthday. We’re told Gypsy had texted him “Happy Birthday” but never received a response, and her brother Dylan later discovered him inside the home.

Urker was Gypsy’s former fiancé and the father of their daughter, Aurora. The two began dating after meeting through a prison pen pal program and got engaged in 2018, but eventually split.