WJTV in Jackson. MS says that  Reporter Melanie Dotson has died.

Dotson had only been at the station since April. She was from Brandon, Miss. and is a graduate of Tougaloo College. She came to the station WXVT in Greenville.

During her time here at WJTV she covered stories about two men trapped in a gravel pit in Copiah County, the deaths of two nuns who were killed in Durant, flooding in Mississippi, along with a host of other stories.

The station did not say what the cause of death was?