Carter Albrect who was a well known Dallas musician and worked with the bands Sorta and Edie Brickell and New Bohemians, was shot on September 3 as he was aggressively trying to break into a neighbor’s home.

Carter’s family has strongly maintained that he was on the cease smoking drug Chantix and it resulted in him having hallucinations. The family has been anxiously awaiting the Dallas coroner’s autopsy report - but, the report is not going to give them the answers they are seeking.

Dr. Jeffrey Barnard, Chief Medical Examiner for Dallas County announced that there is no test available to find out what levels of Chantix were in Albrect’s blood. The only known test is by the drug manufacturer Pfizer and they have chosen to not make that test available to the coroner. Pfizer did provide directions to the coroner on how he can make his own test along with a sample of what the drug may look like in the blood; however, the sample only has a shelf life of 3 days and that is not enough time for the coroner’s office to develop a test.

The official result is that Albrect died as a result from a gunshot wound to the head and his blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit at the time of death.