The FBI has since issued an arrest warrant for Brian Laundrie, Petito’s fiancé, who has been missing for two weeks. 11. Authorities recovered her remains last week and deemed her death a homicide. Petito’s case has sparked nationwide interest in recent weeks after she was reported missing on Sept. The three-time Emmy winner was previously suspended from the network following an incident in which he was allegedly slurring his speech on the air during a May 30 newscast. Frank Somerville co-anchors the weekday editions of KTVU Channel 2 News at 5, KTVU Channel 2 News at 6 and The Ten OClock News on KTVU Channel 2. The following day, Somerville was informed of his indefinite suspension. Somerville’s request to add the less than 30-second sidebar was reportedly denied by KTVU’s news director, Amber Eikel, who dubbed the tagline inappropriate. The Mercury News noted that the term used to describe the media phenomenon, “missing white woman syndrome,” was coined by the late PBS anchor Gwen Ifill.īy the end of 2020, 45 percent of the FBI’s 89,000 active missing person cases were people of color, according to a report from ABC News. Somerville has kept his relationship with Donna mostly private, however, in an interview with the National Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences, he opened. The couple has two daughters - one of which, Callie, who was adopted in 2005 when she was a baby. Somerville, the father of a Black adopted daughter, reportedly requested to add a brief tagline drawing attention to the disproportionate media coverage that missing white women tend to receive compared with women of color. The longtime KTVU news anchor is married to his wife, Donna Wright, a television producer. KTVU news anchor Frank Somerville was removed from air over a newsroom dispute involving coverage of the Petito case.
Twitter account, Frank Somerville, reporter, KTVU-TV, Oakland, CA. He has been taking many steps to address the circumstances that led to this case, including attending meetings and working on himself so that nothing like this ever happens again,” Dugan said.A Bay Area news anchor has been “suspended indefinitely” for requesting to cover “missing white woman syndrome” in relation to the Gabby Petito case, The Mercury News reported. Most Violent Race Riots in America, ABC News, August 11, 2004. Somerville takes these charges very seriously. In a statement Thursday afternoon, Somerville’s attorney Shannan Dugan acknowledged the charges.
During his three decades at KTVU in Oakland, California, Somerville received three Emmy Awards, including one for best on-camera news anchor. 08, with an added clause for having a level over. Frank Somerville (born March 19, 1958) is an American television journalist. On Tuesday, the district attorney’s office charged Somerville with driving under the influence of alcohol, as well as driving with a blood-alcohol level over. He was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, booked into Santa Rita Jail on that charge and later released with a citation to appear. June 1, 2021: KTVU television news anchor Frank Somerville has been taken off the air after an incident Sunday evening in which he slurred his speech while s. A search-warrant obtained blood sample later yielded a result of. KTVU news anchor Frank Somerville again has been removed from the air. 219 blood-alcohol levels, according to the statement. Somerville News and Announcements Governor Abbott Announces More Than 5. When an officer-administered field sobriety test showed signs of impairment, Somerville consented to an alcohol screening test he blew two tests, registering. Officers who spoke with Somerville said he “exhibited symptoms of being under the influence of an alcoholic beverage: bloodshot/watery eyes, thick/slurred speech, and odor of an alcoholic beverage emanating from his person.”
At that point, Somerville stopped driving police arrived a short time later. KTVU's Frank Somerville off air after slurring speech during newscast Four days after KTVU anchor Frank Somerville abruptly left the air during a newscast in which he repeatedly slurred and. They learned that Somerville had been driving a 2014 Porsche east on West Grand when he rear-ended an Audi stopped at the intersection.Īfter the collision, the Audi’s driver managed to get out of their car, according to the statement, but Somerville kept driving east on West Grand, pushing the Audi across the intersection until it hit a pole on the southwest corner. OAKLAND - The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office has filed two misdemeanor charges against former KTVU news anchor Frank Somerville in connection with his arrest late last year on suspicion of driving under the influence, authorities said.Īccording to a police statement in charging documents obtained Thursday, officers responded to Broadway and West Grand Avenue at about 8:20 p.m.
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