According to reports, veteran WABC-TV reporter Lisa Colagrossi died Friday after suffering a brain hemorrhage on her way home from a live assignment.
Colagrossi was pronounced dead from the aneurysm at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center. She was 49.
Reports Deadline:
Colagrossi was en route back to the station from covering a four-alarm fire in Woodhaven, Queens, that tore through several homes late Wednesday night, according to multiple reports. "She was in the news van after finishing her live shot when she said 'Oh my God, something is wrong,' " a friend said. Her producer flagged down an ambulance.
Colagrossi reported for WABC for the last 14 years. WABC-TV news director Camille Edwards tells the AP that "[Colagrossi's] bright smile and big blue eyes lit up our newsroom" and had "two wonderful qualities: grace and grit."
She leaves behind a husband and two sons.
"Lisa Colagrossi embodied the Eyewitness News spirit — a straightforward reporter who told the truth, empathetic to the everyday citizens of the New York area, and demanding of those in power," WABC President Dave Davis told Deadline. "All of us in the Channel 7 family are in shock over her sudden death. Our attention is now focused on helping her husband and two children though this difficult time."
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