Madison Brooks Blood Alcohol Level seems wrong

Vincent J. Curtis

28 Jan 23

It was reported on Fox News that the coroner found that Madison Brooks died with a blood alcohol level of 0.319%.  There was no report of her being tested for a date rape drug.  This BAC seems ridiculously high, and the test ought to be repeated.

The open literature states the following effects at increasing blood alcohol levels:

BAC can be used as a guide to what effects alcohol may have on behaviour. People who drink alcohol regularly may show less effect at higher BAC. 

• A BAC of up to 0.05 g% is likely to cause a feeling of wellbeing. Likely effects are being talkative, more relaxed and more confident.
• A BAC of 0.05 to 0.08 g% is likely to make you at risk of impaired judgment and reduced inhibitions.
• A BAC of 0.08 to 0.15 g% is likely to put you in a risky state. Likely effects include slurred speech, impaired balance and coordination, unstable emotions and possibly nausea and vomiting.
• A BAC of 0.15 to 0.30 g% will put you at high risk with likely effects to be inadequate breathing, unable to walk without assistance, loss of bladder control and possibly loss of consciousness.
• A BAC of over 0.30 g% is likely to put you in a coma or result in death.

A blood alcohol level of 0.319% seems unreasonable, and the test ought to be run again.  On leaving the bar, Brooks was said to be unstable on her feet, yet there was a video released of her allegedly jogging to catch up to the four men who said they would take her home.

Madison Brooks was killed about an hour after she left the bar, and so had not consumed alcohol over that period, or ought not.  Consequently, her BAC should have been higher than 0.319 at the time she left the bar, the body metabolism working for an hour on the alcohol.  The coroner would have us believe that Madison Brooks had drank enough alcohol to have her in a coma, having lost control of her bladder, vomiting, and in quite an emotional state well before she finished drinking in the bar.  And nobody noticed?  Her server kept selling her drinks?  And she kept paying?  The bouncers didn’t notice anything unusual or dangerous developing?  (A young, underage girl dying of alcohol poisoning in their bar isn’t good for business!)

This doesn’t seem right.  Madison Brooks may have been drinking heavily, but not that heavily.  Maybe enough to impair her judgement, but not enough to make her stumbling intoxicated, as she apparently was two hours after closing, when the four men let her out on a four lane highway and laughing callously at her stumbling gait.

Was Madison fed a date rape drug?  Was she tested for it?  Was she fed more alcohol as she was being driven around town with the four men?

A date rape drug would explain why no one in the bar noticed anything really bad developing.  Such a drug might also interfere with the BAC test, and add to the reading.

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Fox News has just reported that Kaivon Washington, the 18 year old Black man charged with raping Madison, has just been now been charged in the raping of a 12 year old girl in March, 2020.  Washinton would have been 16 at the time.  Raping Madison wouldn't this group's first time.  That story is here:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/suspect-lsu-student-madison-brooks-alleged-rape-charged-rape-separate-2020-incident