ABC News producer Dax Tejera died in December from choking on food while intoxicated not from a heart attack as originally reported, officials told People on Wednesday.

Tejera, 37, was stricken on Dec. 23 from asphyxia due to obstruction of airway by food bolus complicating acute alcohol intoxication, the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner told the outlet.

ABC News president Kim Godwin informed staff in the immediate aftermath that Tejera, an executive producer on This Week, had died of a heart attack .

ABC declined to comment on the latest development.