Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) had an alleged affair with a senior aide before she doused herself with gasoline and set herself on fire.
Multiple sources confirmed the alleged affair to the Daily Mail .
On September 13 of this year, 35-year-old Regina Santos-Aviles, who served as regional district director for Gonzales, died after setting herself on fire at her home in Uvalde, Texas. Her family insisted at the time that she did not intentionally start the fire and that she did not want to kill herself. As the New York Post noted at the time:
Officials did not say whether she deliberately started the fatal blaze, but the Uvalde Police Department said it does not suspect anybody else was involved in her death or that there was any foul play.
Despite the report of apparent self-immolat