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Autopsy: Alcohol Factor In N.C. State Frat Fire Death
POSTED: 11:50 am EST December 16, 2005
RALEIGH, N.C. -- An autopsy shows that smoke and heat killed one of two North Carolina State University students who died in an apartment fire in October, but officials said alcohol also was a factor.
The state autopsy report on Brandon Davis doesn't say how drinking contributed to his death. But it noted that Davis died in a bathroom of a duplex near Oberlin Road. He was found on his back, partially in a bathtub.
The senior from High Point had a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.11, just over the legal limit for motorists in North Carolina. A friend says Davis drank liquor shots at a nearby bar the night of the fatal fire.
The fire also killed sophomore Cody Pilkington of Grifton. Pilkington's autopsy found no alcohol in his body, and his friends and relatives have said he never drank or smoked.
The men's three-story rental duplex was home to eight members of the school's Sigma Alpha Mu, a small fraternity of engineering students.
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