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06.12.2022 - 04:31 / deadline.com
An upcoming episode of NCIS: Hawai’i will pay tribute to Yakira Chambers, story editor for the CBS drama who died suddenly last week at the age of 42.
Chambers’ family tells Deadline the preliminary cause of death has been attributed to acute asphyxia. She was with her mother outside a mall in Newport Beach, Calif. on Wednesday evening when she began suffering breathing difficulties and then collapsed.
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Chambers was promoted to story editor for Season 2 of NCIS: Hawai’i after joining the show as a staff writer in the NCIS spinoff’s debut season, penning four episodes. She earned the staff writing position following her selection as a mentee in the highly competitive ViacomCBS Writers Mentoring Program in 2020-2021.
The tribute to her will appear in an episode of the show in January, airing the week after a three-hour NCIS universe crossover event scheduled for January 2.
Chambers’ acting credits include HBO’s Insecure; Saban Films’ John Henry (with Terry Crews); the comedy short series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl (with Issa Rae); and the comedy series M.O. Diaries, co-written by Lena Waithe, in which she played Michelle Obama.
In addition to her work on NCIS: Hawai’i, Chambers was developing several of her own projects including a TV pilot she wrote on imprisoned gang leader-turned-author and community services advocate Larry Hoover, and Myseducation, a TV pilot “about her own experiences growing up on the Southside [of Chicago] and attending a majority-white high school.”
Chambers was born in Chicago and graduated at the top of her class from the city’s Lindblom Math and Science Academy High School, according to information provided by her family.
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