Darrielle Snipes joined the Eyewitness News 5 team as a weekend anchor and reporter in December 2007.

You can catch her reporting for Eyewitness News 5 at 10 p.m. during the week and anchoring the evening shows on the weekend.

She was in Oklahoma just a few days before an ice storm crippled the state for days. Using her years of reporting, Darrielle jumped right in reporting on "The State of Emergency".

Darrielle came to KOCO from its sister station, WBAL in Baltimore. She spent three years as one of the station's lead reporters for the 11 p.m. news and as a fill-in anchor.

Before that, Darrielle worked at several stations in the Midwest including Detroit and Indianapolis, in both places as a reporter.

Darrielle graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in journalism.

She grew up in Evanston, Ill, a suburb of Chicago, and spent her summers as a child with relatives in Washington, D.C.

Family members tell Darrielle she told them at the age of 7 she wanted to report the news. So, it is a dream come true to be able to tell stories for a living.

Moving to Oklahoma is also like a homecoming for Darrielle. Her great-great grandfather, the Rev. Cupid Bacoates, lived in and had a church just outside of Oklahoma City. And her great-grandparents, Dr. and Mrs. Archibald Bacoates lived in Tulsa, where Darrielle's grandmother, Gwendolyn Johnson, lived before moving to Washington, D.C.

Darrielle said she is "excited to come to Oklahoma City, to anchor the evening shows and to meet people in the metro area."

Darrielle is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists.