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

Los Angeles news anchor Chauncy Glover, who formerly worked for Detroit's WDIV-TV, has died at age 39.

Glover passed away unexpectedly, according to KCAL, the CBS station in Los Angeles that he joined in October 2023. Prior to that, he spent eight years anchoring at Houston's KRTK. 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 issued a statement to KCAL that said, "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's a real-life hero and a devoted community leader with the heart of doing what 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, launched the Chauncy Glover Project in the Motor City, which the Free Press described a year later as a program "created to mold inner-city young men into educated, financially responsible, well-mannered gentlemen."

The website for the Chauncy Glover Project says he founded the outreach effort after "witnessing a high school student's death in a Detroit street after the teenager attempted to rob his high school's 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.

Besides being a TV anchor, Glover was an actor, motivational speaker and singer. A three-time Emmy winner, he also was the recipient of the Angelo B. Henderson Community Service Award from the National Association of Black Journalists in 2016. 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 final Instagram posts featured video clips from his time with KCAL and was captioned, "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going! My first year in #LA on #kcalnews #cbsla in the books! God is good!"

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