Heartbroken Mindy McCready faces a new custody battle over her eldest son following the suicide death of her boyfriend, MailOnline can reveal today. McCready, her mother Melody Gayle Inge and the boy's father Billy McKnight will all stake their claim to look after five-year-old Zander. The singer's grandmother Gayle told MailOnline today that her daughter was planning to travel to Arkansas to be with her grandson. Mourning: David Wilson, seen here with his country singer girlfriend Mindy McCready, was found with a gunshot wound on Sunday night and pronounced dead hours later The tragedy is almost certain to reignite a tug-of-love battle that captivated America a little over a year ago after McCready was found hiding in a closet in December 2011 with the boy after kidnapping him from her own mother.
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McCready made national headlines when she was found in Wilson's closet after taking her older son, Zander, from her mother, who had custody
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Now after suspected suicide of her boyfriend, her mother is returning to Arkansas to 'be with her grandson', family tell MailOnline
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David Wilson, 34, was McCready's live in boyfriend and her 'soul mate'
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Police told MailOnline that they were called to the scene and found the music producer had 'self-inflicted gunshot wound'
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Pronounced dead at nearby hospital in Heber Springs, Arkansas
'Life partners': McCready, 37, and @placeholder, 34, lived together in a home owned by a Wilson relative