ABC News producer Dax Tejera’s tragic cause of death has been revealed after his wife was arrested for “abandoning” their children in a New York City hotel.
Dax and his wife Veronica Dax Tejera dined at a New York steakhouse on the day he died while their kids were left in a hotel room, according to sources.
The New York City Medical Examiner’s Office exclusively revealed to The U.S. Sun that Dax Tejera’s tragic cause of death at just 37 years old was “asphyxia due to obstruction of airway by food bolus complicating acute alcohol intoxication.”
The medical examiner ruled the manner of death an “accident.”
A food bolus is the mass of food and saliva that results from chewing and usually passes down the esophagus to the stomach, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Veronica, 33, was charged with child endangerment shortly after his death as she allegedly left her two daughters, aged two and five months, in a room at the Yale Club as the pair went to dinner.
She was arrested just hours after her husband died.
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TRAGIC OUTING
Sources previously told the New York Post that Veronica and Dax Tejera dined with friends at the elegant Bobby Van’s restaurant in Midtown before his death.
A staffer claimed that they didn’t spend a long time inside before a server claimed that the producer seemed “unwell.”
The worker told the Post: “So before anyone ate, just after the server brought the orders, he asked: ‘Are you OK sir?”
They claimed that he collapsed after leaving the restaurant.
Veronica said that she rushed to the hospital with Dax Tejera after he collapsed, but claimed she was monitoring her kids with a camera.
But, workers at the Yale Club called cops to report the allegedly unattended kids.
Veronica said in a statement: “When Dax Tejera collapsed on December 23rd, I accompanied him in an ambulance to the hospital.”
She admitted it was a “poor decision” to leave her kids even though they were “unharmed”.
The mom-of-two added: “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. Our family has suffered a terrible tragedy.
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“I respectfully ask for privacy while my children and I mourn Dax’s death.”
Dax Tejera, who was a producer on George Stephanopoulos’ show This Week, died just days before Christmas.
Veronica said she’s been left “devastated” following her husband’s passing.
She added: “He has left behind a heartbroken family, and two daughters he loved with all his heart.
“Our family has suffered a terrible tragedy. I respectfully ask for privacy while my children and I mourn Dax’s death.”
Dax Tejera shared a picture of himself, Veronica, and their kids smiling in what turned out to be his final post before his death.
He captioned the image: “Merry Christmas!”
Dax Tejera also shared a snap of his two young daughters sitting by the window and the New York landscape could be seen in the background.
He also shared a throwback snap of himself alongside his wife at the White House with President Biden.
Dax Tejera commandeered This Week right before Covid-19 struck after joining ABC News’s Washington, DC, team in 2017.
He previously worked as a researcher and editor for NBC.
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