Chauncy Glover, Los Angeles news anchor and former reporter for Detroit’s WDIV, dies at 39

Los Angeles news anchor Chauncy Glover, who previously worked for Detroit’s WDIV-TV, has died at the age of 39.

Glover died unexpectedly, according to KCAL, the CBS station in Los Angeles he joined in October 2023. Before that, he spent eight years anchoring at KRTK in Houston. A cause of death was not immediately released.

From 2011 to 2014, he was a reporter at Local 4 News in Detroit, where he covered breaking news stories, including the Sandy Hook shooting.

Glover’s family released a statement to KCAL saying, “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.”

Glover’s KCAL biography describes him as “not just a journalist; he is a true hero and a dedicated community leader with the heart to do whatever it takes to make our communities a better place to live.”

The Alabama native worked for stations in Georgia and Florida before being hired by Detroit’s Local 4 News. In 2013, he launched the Chauncy Glover Project in the Motor City, which the Free Press described a year later as a program “created to transform young inner-city men into well-educated, financially responsible, well-mannered gentlemen.”

The Chauncy Glover Project website says he founded the outreach effort after “witnessing the death of a high school student on a Detroit street after the teen attempted to rob his high school basketball coach.”

Now headquartered in Houston, it has sent more than 350 young men of color to college and mentored more than 1,000, according to KCAL.

In addition to being a TV host, Glover was an actor, motivational speaker and singer. A three-time Emmy winner, he also received the 2016 Angelo B. Henderson Community Service Award from the National Association of Black Journalists. It is named for the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (and Detroit News alumnus), radio host and minister who died in 2014.

One of Glover’s last Instagram posts featured video clips from his time at KCAL and was captioned: “Don’t watch the clock; do what he does. Keep going! My first year in #LA on #kcalnews #cbslay in the books! God is good!”

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