Child Endangerment Charges Hours After ABC News Producer Died, NYPD Says
ABC News executive producer Dax Tejera’s wife was arrested on charges of child endangerment in the hours following his death on December 23, a spokesperson for the NYPD’s public information office said.
Veronica Tejera was booked on two counts of “acting in a manner injurious to a child” after her 37-year-old husband’s fatal heart attack last week, according to a police statement.
While a specific timeline is unclear, the NYPD spokesperson said police responded to a 911 call at 11 p.m. that evening, reporting “unattended children” at 50 Vanderbilt Avenue in Manhattan. That address houses The Yale Club, a members-only hotel. Police said a preliminary investigation “revealed that a 2-year-old female and a 5-month-old female were left alone inside of a hotel room for an extended period of time.”
