According to officials, an ABC News producer who passed away after leaving his children in a hotel so that he and his wife could dine at a swanky Midtown restaurant strangled to death because he was intoxicated.
The official cause of death for Dax Tejera was “asphyxia due to obstruction of airway by food bolus complicating acute alcohol intoxication,” according to New York City’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner, which confirmed this to The Post.
Tejera, the executive producer of “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” on ABC, passed away unexpectedly on December 23 at the age of 37.
Tejera died after a heart attack, according to ABC News president Kim Goodwin.
Just hours after he fainted, his wife, Veronica, was arrested for leaving the couple’s young children alone in a hotel room at the Yale Club that evening. The widowed mother of two was charged with child endangerment, but she said she was just keeping an eye on her children.
In response to the charges, the mother stated that she took her husband to the hospital and asked her parents and a close friend to keep their 5-month-old and 2-year-old children while she observed them via video.
Tejera began working for ABC News as a senior producer in 2017. In February 2020, she switched over to Stephanopoulos’ show.
He earned his history degree from Dartmouth College and his journalism graduate degree from Columbia University, and he had previously worked for NBC News.
The family is yet to make an official funeral plans. You’ll be updated on the new happenings.