Chauncy Glover, an Emmy Award-winning anchor at KCAL News in Los Angeles, has died, the station reported. He was 39.
Glover passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 5. No cause of death was given.
His family called him a “beacon of light” in a statement posted on the KCAL News website.
“We, Sherry and Robert Glover, along with Chauncy’s beloved family, are devastated by the unimaginable loss of our beloved Chauncy. He was more than a son and brother — he was a beacon of light in our lives and a true hero to his community,” the statement read.
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Glover joined the station in October 2023, and co-anchored evening newscasts on KCAL9 and CBS2 with Pat Harvey and Suzie Suh.
He moved to Los Angeles from Houston, after spending eight years at KTRK and was the 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.
