ABC News Producer Dax Tejera Died From Choking While Drunk – After Leaving His Kids Alone??

ABC News producer Dax Tejera’s official reason behind dying has been revealed — and it might not be what everybody anticipated!

As we beforehand reported, the 37-yr-outdated died on December 23 throughout an evening out to dinner in New York City together with his spouse Veronica Tejera (above, left inset) and associates whereas their two youngsters have been left alone in a resort room. ABC News President Kim Godwin initially reported in a be aware despatched to employees that Dax handed away “suddenly of a heart attack.” However, it seems that wasn’t the case!

According to The Sun on Wednesday, Dax truly died from choking whereas intoxicated — and never from a coronary heart assault! The New York City Medical Examiner’s Office revealed the This Week with George Stephanopoulos producer’s reason behind dying was “asphyxia due to obstruction of airway by food bolus complicating acute alcohol intoxication.” His method of dying was dominated as an “accident.”

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For those that don’t know, a meals bolus is mainly a mass of meals and saliva from chewing and sometimes strikes down the esophagus to the abdomen. According to the National Institutes of Health, individuals can expertise the sensation of compacting of their chest throughout a meals bolus impaction — which will be arduous for somebody to distinguish from coronary heart assault ache. Perhaps that is why it was initially believed Dax suffered from a coronary heart assault?

As for what occurred that evening, sources beforehand shared with the New York Post that Dax and Veronica have been out with associates at Bobby Van’s Steakhouse in Midtown on the evening of his dying. An worker advised the outlet that Dax appeared “unwell” on the time, including:

“So before anyone ate, just after the server brought the orders, he asked: ‘Are you OK sir?”

When the producer left the institution, he collapsed on the bottom exterior and was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, the place he was pronounced lifeless upon arrival. Awful.

Then, complicating this tragedy additional, his spouse was arrested and charged with baby endangerment simply hours after he died! While the dad and mom have been out for dinner, Veronica allegedly left their two-yr-outdated daughter and 5-month-outdated daughter alone of their room on the Yale Club — which was a block away from the restaurant.

After Dax collapsed on the place, she went along with her husband to the hospital and despatched a pal and her dad and mom to get their two youngsters. However, employees on the resort known as the cops about some “unattended children,” and police found “a two-year-old female and a five-month-old female were left alone inside of a hotel room for an extended period of time.” The youngsters reportedly have been alone within the room for a minimum of two hours!

Veronica was arrested and charged with two counts of “acting in a manner injurious to a child” that day. Later, she issued an announcement concerning the authorized matter and insisted she was watching her daughters with a digicam:

“When Dax collapsed on December 23rd, I accompanied him in an ambulance to the hospital. I asked both a close friend and my parents to rush to my children’s hotel room to attend to them as I monitored them by camera. The hotel would not allow my friend in and instead called the NYPD. We had two cameras trained on my children as they slept, and I monitored them closely in the time I was away from them. While the girls were unharmed, I realize that it was a poor decision.”

This was already a precarious scenario — positive, the children weren’t far-off, and he or she had the protection that she was monitoring them. But additionally, it appears they have been a bit far in case of emergency, which is strictly what occurred. And now, to study Dax truly died partially on account of how a lot alcohol he’d had? It’s not going to look good for her case that they have been consuming a lot with out somebody clear-headed to look at the children.

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