Pat Casey, TV news director was 54

Pat Casey, the former managing editor at Channel 2 in Los Angeles, died Saturday in Cincinnati after a year-long battle with brain cancer. Casey had worked in Baltimore, Washington and Portland, Maine before coming to Los Angeles to work on the nationally syndicated investigative newsmagazine, "The Crusaders." He was managing editor at KCBS-TV for nearly five years, around the time of the 1994 Nicole Simpson murder. “Pat stood out from the pack, and not just because he was a dedicated newsman,” said Harvey Levin, the TMZ founder who was one of Casey's reporters at Channel 2. "He had so much humanity. I was always struck by how much he cared about the people we covered." Casey also worked for "Extra" here, and most recently had been a news director in Ohio. “There was no one like Pat Casey," said Beth Laski, who worked for him in Los Angeles and is now a PR executive. "He was a person of incredible integrity, loyalty, intelligence and dedication – truly admired and respected by many."

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