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Beloved Wisconsin morning news anchor mourned after her sudden death aged 27

A “beloved” morning anchor with Wisconsin’s ABC affiliate WAOW News 9 has died of a suspect suicide, her family say.

Neena Pacholke, 27, passed away suddenly on Saturday, her sister Kaitlynn Pacholke told the Tampa Bay Times.

“Sometimes you just don’t know what people are going through, no matter how much you think you know someone,” Kaitlynn told the news site.

“My sister had access to every resource you could imagine. She was loved by everybody. She was so good at her job.”

Neena Pacholke grew up in Tampa and was a star basketball player for the University of South Florida before moving to Wausau, Wisconsin, to work in broadcasting in 2017.