KCAL News Anchor Chauncy Glover's Cause of Death Released

Chauncy Glover, an Emmy Award-winning Los Angeles news anchor, died in November at age 39.

On Feb. 19, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s office released the results of Glover’s autopsy, saying he died from “acute” intoxication of two drugs, including methamphetamine.

His manner of death was listed as accidental. Per TMZ the full autopsy report will be released next month.

In a statement on its website, the coroner’s office said Glover died at a residence on Nov. 5. His official cause of death was listed as “acute intoxication by the combined effects of chloroethane and methamphetamine.”

Chloroethane is a “colorless gas at room temperature and pressure, with a characteristically sharp odor,” according to the National Institutes of Health. The gas can cause “euphoria and excitement” in people, but it can also be fatal, per NIH. Chloroethane was added to leaded gasoline before new government regulations sharply reduced its use.

Glover joined CBS-owned duopoly KCAL News in October 2023, and co-anchored the evening newscasts on KCAL9 and CBS2 with Pat Harvey and Suzie Suh.

“Chauncy has always focused on the communities he served in, whether it was through his storytelling or his outreach,” KCAL News said in an online tribute.

He moved to Los Angeles from Houston, after spending eight years at KTRK and was that station’s first Black male main anchor.

Chauncy “was bitten by the news bug at the age of 5 when his dad built him his very own mini ‘anchor desk’ for his newscasts that he would perform for his family every Sunday after church,” read his obituary on the KTRK website.

Raised in Athens, Alabama, Glover studied broadcast journalism, music and theatre at Troy University in Alabama.

He got his start as a journalist at WTVM in Columbus, Georgia; later working at CBS 47 and Fox 30 in Jacksonville, Florida; and WDIV in Detroit, Michigan.

Glover created a mentorship program called The Chauncy Glover Project, while working at WDIV. The program sent more than 350 boys of color to college, according to KCAL News.