Regina Ann Santos-Aviles, the congressional aide who had an affair with her boss, U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, was legally intoxicated when she set herself on fire in her backyard in Uvalde, according to an autopsy report obtained by the San Antonio Express-News.
Santos-Aviles, 35, had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.094 grams per deciliter, according to the five-page report from the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office. After lighting herself ablaze on the evening of Sept. 13, 2025, Santos-Aviles was flown to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, where she died the next morning.
It is illegal to drive in Texas and all other states with a blood alcohol level of 0.08 grams per deciliter or higher…