On February 15, 2016, McCollum was in a single-car accident in New Jersey. She died of her injuries a week later on February 22, 2016 in Camden, NJ. She was 24.
Won the Miss New Jersey pageant in 2013, her talent was playing the piano.
Graduated from Princeton in 2014 where she majored in English.
At the time of her death she was a news anchor for South New Jersey (SNJ), a Jersey based TV Network.