A new report indicates Angela Chao, a shipping executive and sister of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's wife, was drunk when she drowned in Texas last month.
Police say her blood alcohol level was .233, nearly three times the state's legal limit when she drowned after reversing her Tesla into a pond at her ranch in Johnson City, about 48 miles west of Austin.
Officials initially declined to share details around the death but newly-released police records revealed the information this week.
That night, Chao was hosting a group of seven close female friends after they attended a Pitbull show the night before, the Blanco County Sheriff's Office said in a report obtained by CNBC.
Following dinner at the guest house, Chao left around 11:30 p.m. to make the one-mile drive back to the main residence when she "struck a retaining wall near the pond, separating two large limestone blocks at least three feet high and weighing up to 500 pounds," per the report. Her SUV went airborn and then landed and rolled into the pond, which is about 30 feet from the guesthouse.
According to the report, Chao called one of her friends and calmly told her she was in the pond, her vehicle was taking on water, and she wasn't able to get out. She told her friend she was going to die and said "I love you" before the vehicle went under water.
Friends tried to save Chao before first responders arrived at the scene. An officer was eventually able to break a side window and pull Chao from the submerged vehicle, but it was too late and she was pronounced dead at 1:40 a.m. on Feb. 11.
Chao, 50, served as the chair and CEO of Foremost Group, a dry bulk shipping company founded by her father Dr. James S.C. Chao with her mother, the late Ruth Mulan Chu Chao, in 1964, per the company website. Before joining the company in 1996, she worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions Department of Smith Barney, now Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, and graduated from Harvard.