Gunter Nezhoda, who was known for appearing with his son Rene Nezhoda on Storage Wars, died Tuesday (March 21) from lung cancer complications, TMZ reports. He was 67.
Rene revealed in a video shared on social media that his father died in his sleep, just months after being diagnosed with lung cancer in September 2022. Gunter had recently flown to Salt Lake City, Utah, to get emergency surgery, but doctors were unable to help him.
“We thought he was going to fully recover but unfortunately he didn’t,” Rene said about his father.
He added, “He was 67 years old and all the love that you guys have shown him and support, he really appreciated that.”
Gunter lived in Vienna, where he was born in 1956, and later Frankfurt, Germany. He later moved to Las Vegas in 1990.
He held many professions throughout his life outside of his brief appearances on Storage Wars. Gunter was an accomplished photographer whose work appeared …