The erstwhile constituent defender for the University of South Florida women's hoops squad died connected Aug. 27, her sister Kaitlynn Pacholke shared on Instagram. Neena, who had worked astatine News 9 successful Wausau, Wisconsin since 2017, was 27 years old.

During his on-air conception connected Aug. 30, News 9 Chief Meteorologist Justin Leow shared images of Neena from her aboriginal days of moving astatine the station, noting however good she adapted to beingness successful Central Wisconsin aft moving from her autochthonal Florida.

"I cognize wherefore I'm other bittersweet astir Neena's passing, and I cognize wherefore you—the viewers—are besides other sad," Justin said done tears, "Because she came present and she wanted to enactment here. She went to your veteran's cafe successful Wisconsin Rapids, she went to your event, she went to your Cherokee fundraiser."

He continued, "And that is thing truly peculiar for idiosyncratic to travel here, from outside, and deliberation that 'central Wisconsin is truthful nice, I'm going to enactment present and I'm going to enactment here'."

News 9 Anchor Kathryn Halvorsen posted a carousel of selfies connected Instagram with Neena and shared that she was "struggling with the unexpected loss" of her closest friend.

"Neena ever near radical amended than she recovered them. She checked successful often and enactment everyone else's needs supra her own. We worked other shifts but ever made clip for each other.. and sadly determination is ne'er capable time," Kathryn wrote. "We were looking guardant to truthful galore much *times* together. We were each other's enactment system.. I americium truthful numb to cognize I couldn't prevention you."

"The top person I ne'er knew I needed," she continued. "Your bequest volition unrecorded on.. and saccharine angel erstwhile I went to religion the different time I felt your beingness .. I cognize you're up supra sunshine."