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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Abe Asher

ABC producer Dax Tejera choked to death due to alcohol after collapsing on NYC sidewalk

Dax Tejera/Instagram

Dax Tejera, the ABC News producer who died two days before Christmas, choked to death while intoxicated, according to authorities.

ABC News initially announced that Mr Tejera had died of a heart attack, but the Office of Chief Medical Examiner in New York City confirmed on Wednesday that the producer’s cause of death has been determined as “Asphyxia due to obstruction of airway by food bolus complicating acute alcohol intoxication.”

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