Mindy McCready dead in apparent suicide; country singer was 37

Country singer Mindy McCready was found dead by apparent suicide on her front porch Sunday, the victim of a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to officials in Arkansas. She was 37.

Her death comes a little over a month after David Wilson, her partner and the father of her younger son, died of a gunshot wound to the head on that same porch in Heber Springs, Ark.

"Just got a call from Mindy McCready's best friend that she shot and killed herself this evening," NBC's Andrea Canning wrote on Twitter on Sunday night. "My heart breaks for her two boys. RIP." Canning had recently interviewed McCready for "Dateline."

In that interview, McCready, who was not a suspect, was askedby Canning if she'd killed Wilson. "Oh, my God, no," the singer replied. "Oh, my God, no. He was my life. We were each other's life."

According to a sheriff's statement obtained by TMZ, "Officers arrived on the scene at 3:58 PM [Sunday] and discovered the body of 37 year old Melinda Gayle McCready on the front porch of the residence ... . Ms. McCready was pronounced dead at the scene from what appears to be a single self-inflicted gunshot wound."

McCready had been ordered into rehab by a judge on Feb. 6 after her father asked the court to intervene but appears to have been released two days later.

She leaves behind two children, Zander, 6, and Zayne, 9 months. The boys were put into foster care when their mom