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Actor Dean Cain escorts his girlfriend, country music singer Mindy McCready, to the premiere of the new horror film "Scream 2" at Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California in this December 10, 1997 file photograph. McCready has died aged 37 from an

Country singer Mindy McCready dead of apparent suicide: sheriff
Country singer Mindy McCready dead of apparent suicide: sheriff
Posted : Sunday, 17 February 2013 10:48PM

(Reuters) - Country music star Mindy McCready, whose albums include "Ten Thousand Angels" and "If I Don't Stay the Night," has died at age 37 apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, an Arkansas sheriff said on Sunday.

McCready was found dead on the porch of a house in Heber Springs, Arkansas, on Sunday afternoon with what appears to be "a single self-inflicted gunshot wound," the Cleburne County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.

(Reporting by Tim Gaynor in Phoenix; Editing by Eric Beech)

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