Chauncy Glover death: Los Angeles news anchor dies at 39

Chauncy Glover, an Emmy Award-winning news anchor for KCBS and KCAL in Los Angeles, has died. He was 39.

According to Deadline, KCAL announced Glover’s death on Tuesday and shared a statement from his family.

“We, Sherry and Robert Glover, along with Chauncy’s beloved family, are devastated by the unimaginable loss of our beloved Chauncy,” the statement said. “He was more than a son and brother – he was a beacon in our lives and a true hero for his community. Chauncy’s compassion and commitment to helping others, particularly through the Chauncy Glover Project, changed countless lives and inspired so many young men to pursue their dreams. His talent, warmth and vision left an impression on everyone who knew him, and the world is bleaker without him.”

After becoming the first Black male primetime evening anchor at KTRK in Houston, Glover joined KCAL in 2023, co-anchoring the 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts with Pat Harvey and the 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts with Suzie Suh.

According to Glover’s KCAL biography, he “caught the news bug at the age of five when his father built him his very own mini ‘anchor desk’ for his newscasts, which he performed for his family every Sunday after church.”

He turned this passion into a career, beginning his time at Troy University in Alabama, where he studied broadcast journalism, music and theater. After graduation, he joined WTVM News Leader 9 in Columbus, Georgia, and two years later he moved to CBS 47 and Fox 30 in Jacksonville, Florida, where he worked as a special projects and general assignment reporter. Before KTRK, he moved to Detroit’s WDIV, where he won numerous awards for his work. Glover won three Emmys for his live reporting in the Midwest city and for his reporting during Hurricane Harvey. The latter saw him save a woman in labor and help deliver her baby.

Glover shared on KCAL that the Chauncy Glover Project has sent more than 350 boys of color to college and mentored more than 1,000 young men, Variety reported.

Glover, who said working in the news was his “calling,” lived by this motto: “Fear ends where faith begins.”