tjt24 309 Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 12 hours ago, MorningNews said: On Saturday’s memorial program station President Jason Ball said we won’t truly understand the brilliance that was Burrous until it comes time to find a worthy replacement. There was simply no other like him. Jason Ball is the station's news director. And you're right. There was no one like Chris Burrous... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TennTV1983 742 Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 Just finished watching KTLA's coverage of The Rose Parade, and they closed the program with a shot of the broadcast crew from a previous year in memory of Chris Burrous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiveNews 327 Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 Not reading anything into it, but Spillman co-anchored today with Lynette. Last weekend Lauren Lyster (weekend Morning News reporter) co-anchored. Looks like they might be trying a few people out until they find a suitable replacement for Chris. Also, FYI...Chris was laid to rest yesterday at a private funeral at Rose Hills in Whittier. There were a few snippets on KTLA's IG. Sam Rubin, Wendy Burch among others eulogized Chris. Enjoy your eternal rest, Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1804 Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 On 1/12/2019 at 11:02 AM, FiveNews said: Not reading anything into it, but Spillman co-anchored today with Lynette. Last weekend Lauren Lyster (weekend Morning News reporter) co-anchored. Looks like they might be trying a few people out until they find a suitable replacement for Chris. Also, FYI...Chris was laid to rest yesterday at a private funeral at Rose Hills in Whittier. There were a few snippets on KTLA's IG. Sam Rubin, Wendy Burch among others eulogized Chris. Enjoy your eternal rest, Chris. Speculating about the guy's replacement is wholly inappropriate in the thread about his passing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fan of la tv 47 Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 The coroner officially released the cause of Chris Burrous's death. It was methamphetamine toxicity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daybreak 269 Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 1 hour ago, fan of la tv said: The coroner officially released the cause of Chris Burrous's death. It was methamphetamine toxicity. I just read a story from a blog site and it was horrible. I feel so bad for his wife and family. Why would someone think to write something like that? Sending love and positivity to his family and KTLA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat News 4738 Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 Burrous Death Date: 02-22-2019 3:10 PM - Word Count: 366 Burrous Death Coroner: TV Anchor Chris Burrous Suffered Meth Overdose During Sex Encounter Eds: NOTE nature. Coroner's case 2018-09806. Suttles can be reached at (818) 484-1089.Ardalani can be reached at (323) 343-0783 or [email protected]. GLENDALE (CNS) - KTLA5 weekend anchor Chris Burrous, who was found unconscious in a Glendale motel room two days after Christmas, died from an accidental methamphetamine overdose, the county coroner reported today. Police were contacted at 1:15 p.m. Dec. 27 by a caller who said a man he was with at the Days Inn, 450 Pioneer Drive, had passed out and was possibly not breathing, Glendale police Sgt. Dan Suttles previously said. A dispatcher gave the man instructions on how to perform CPR and he was attempting to administer emergency aid when firefighters arrived, Suttles said. Glendale firefighters found Burrous inside the motel room, not breathing, Suttles said. They administered CPR and the 43-year-old newscaster was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:06 p.m. An autopsy was performed Dec. 28, but the cause of death was deferred pending further investigation. ``It was later determined Burrous died from methamphetamine toxicity,'' Sarah Ardalani of the Los Angeles County coroner's office said in a statement released Friday afternoon. ``Other contributing factors include hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.'' According to the coroner's report, Burrous had inserted the drug into his anus and put on a bondage mask laced with amyl nitrate ``poppers'' during a sexual encounter with a man he met on the Grindr dating website. Burrous, who was married with a 9-year-old daughter, graduated from Chapman University in Orange with a degree in broadcast journalism and began a two-decade career in news starting at KCKC-AM and KCXX-FM in San Bernardino while he was still in school. He went on to work at stations in San Jose, Rapid City, South Dakota, Bakersfield, Fresno, Sacramento and KTLA sister station WPIX in New York City before transferring to Los Angeles. Burrous was credited with helping extend the ``KTLA Morning News'' to seven days a week, anchoring weekends and covering breaking news on weekday mornings. His weekend ``Burrous' Bites'' segments, which highlighted hole-in- the- wall eateries in Southern California, were a viewer favorite. CNS-02-22-2019 15:10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColumbusNewsFan 217 Posted February 23, 2019 Share Posted February 23, 2019 I feel sorry for his family that this is now out there and public knowledge. I know that is the story of how it went down but damn it put it all out there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wabceyewitness 767 Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 On 2/22/2019 at 7:16 PM, Daybreak said: I just read a story from a blog site and it was horrible. I feel so bad for his wife and family. Why would someone think to write something like that? Sending love and positivity to his family and KTLA. Very sad story but, like any other public figure who dies suddenly, the public will want to know and media organizations will, rightfully so, report any details they can confirm. It’s too bad that the full investigation took this long to complete. Would have almost been better if it could’ve have been done and over and the details all released just after his death. Now his family and coworkers have had to go through this painful process twice in the span of two months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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