Posted on 06/12/2021 8:31:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Veteran TV newsman and former University of Alabama football player Christopher Sign died Saturday morning in an apparent suicide, according to police.
At 8:13 a.m. Saturday, the Hoover 911 center received a call of a person down at a residence on Scout Trace. Hoover police and fire personnel arrived to find the 45-year-old Sign dead.
Hoover police Lt. Keith Czeskleba said the death is being investigated as a suicide.
ABC 33/40 in 2017 announced Sign was returning to Birmingham from Phoenix as the evening anchor, replacing Dave Baird after he retired.
Sign co-anchored broadcasts with Brenda Ladun and Pam Huff.
“Our deepest sympathy is shared with Chris’s loving family and close friends,” said Sinclair Broadcast Group Vice President and General Manager Eric S. Land.
“We have lost a revered colleague whose indelible imprint will serve forever as a hallmark of decency, honesty and journalist integrity. We can only hope to carry on Chris’s legacy. May his memory be for blessing,” Land said.
Sign, who grew up near Dallas, previously worked as a reporter for ABC 33/40 from 2000 to 2005, where he covered the 2001 Brookwood mine disaster and hurricanes Charlie, Frances and Ivan.
While a reporter and morning anchor at ABC affiliate KNXV-TV in Phoenix, Sign broke the story of the June 2016 secret tarmac meeting between former President Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
Sign wrote a book about his experience called Secret on the Tarmac.
Sign also won a 2014 Emmy Award for breaking news for his coverage of the shooting of two Phoenix police officers, as well as an Edward R. Murrow Award for spot news, for his coverage of the search for the “Baseline Killer” and “Serial Shooter” who terrorized Phoenix in the summer of 2016.
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Seems odd to commit suicide AFTER the move. Before the move I could see it.
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Suicide, my ass.
The comments…You don’t know what demons he may have been dealing with. Just because he’s handsome and has a wife and kids he wouldn’t have suicidal thoughts? C’mon man.
I agree
This is the problem with the internet.
Things that are just jokes or insults get taken seriously and literally by people who really should know better.
Then, people who believe things they know almost certainly aren't true make belief in those things an article of faith.
Was he at home?
Who made the call to 911 about a person “down?”
Was he happily married?
Was he alone when he died?
Lots of questions.
The “President” and First “Lady” most deserving of assassination ,since FDR and Eleanor( Jimmah and Rosalynn are close ).
Where’s Joseph Paul Franklin when the USA NEEDS him????!!!!
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