Angela Chao, delivery business exec, died on Texas ranch after her automotive went right into a pond, report says

JOHNSON CITY, Texas (AP) — Angela Chao, a delivery business CEO and sister-in-law to Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell, died on a Texas ranch final month after her automotive went right into a pond and have become submerged in water for an prolonged time period, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Chao, 50, died Feb. 11 within the Texas Hill Nation. A household assertion on the time didn’t disclose particulars about her loss of life and authorities in Blanco County haven’t launched extra info, citing an ongoing investigation.

The Wall Road Journal, citing a hearth division incident report, mentioned rescue employees wanted a dive crew upon arriving on the scene however none was obtainable. One emergency unit arrived at 12:28 a.m., about 24 minutes after getting a name.

Deputies requested units to interrupt the window of the automobile, a Tesla, and an emergency companies employee and firefighter entered the water with rescue instruments.

Chao was discovered unresponsive after the automotive was pulled from the water, Blanco County emergency companies chief Ben Oakley mentioned. She was pulled from the automobile and makes an attempt had been made to resuscitate her, the Journal reported.

Chao was the chair and CEO of her household’s delivery enterprise, the Foremost Group, and the president of her father’s philanthropic group, the Foremost Basis. A spokesperson for the household and firm declined to remark Monday on the report.

Officers with Blanco County hearth and emergency companies didn’t instantly return an e-mail Monday in search of details about the accident.

Chao was the youngest of six sisters to immigrant dad and mom who moved to the U.S. from China within the late Nineteen Fifties. Her eldest sibling, Elaine Chao, is married to McConnell and served as transportation secretary beneath President Donald Trump and labor secretary beneath President George W. Bush.

McConnell made notice of his sister-in-law’s loss of life when he introduced final month that he was stepping down as the Senate Republican leader.

“As a few of you could know, this has been a very troublesome time for my household. We tragically misplaced Elaine’s youthful sister Angela, only a few weeks in the past,” McConnell mentioned on Feb. 28. “Once you lose a cherished one, significantly at a younger age, there’s a sure introspection that accompanies the grieving course of.”

Chao’s father, James S.C. Chao, mentioned within the household assertion on the time of her loss of life that “her absence leaves a void not solely in our hearts, however within the Asian-American neighborhood.”