CHAPEL HILL The state's chief medical examiner has redacted any reference to prior mental illness in the autopsy report of a UNC fraternity president shot by Archdale police in August.

Guilford County Medical Examiner Gordon Arnold had initially listed "depression" as a contributing condition to the suicide threat that led to the shooting death of Court land Smith, 21.

But Chief Medical Examiner John Butts crossed out that word Wednesday, along with the words "alcoholism" and "depression" under Smith's medical history. "No prior history of depression or alcoholism," Butts wrote.

The medical examiner's report still indicates that Smith was intoxicated; the alcohol content of his blood was 0.22 percent, according to a separate toxicology report. That's almost three times North Carolina's 0.08 legal limit.

Butts also redacted a sentence saying that Smith had "commented to friends on [day of death] and before about possible suicidal ideas." An addendum states, "There is no evidence that prior to this he had expressed suicidal thoughts or intent."

Pat Barnes, administrator for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, said it's typical for that central office to review reports from county medical examiners, but unusual that Butts would conduct his own second review. "Additional information came in to Dr. Butts, and with that additional information, he looked back over the case again," Barnes said.

After Dr. Samuel Simmons released Arnold's report last week, members of Smith's fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, complained about Arnold's "editorial comments."

"We are dumbfounded," the group wrote in an official statement. "Courtland was cheerful and optimistic. We are not autopsy experts, but we are confused."

On Thursday, DKE issued another statement saying it was pleased with the changes. "[The initial report] did not accurately reflect the behavior of the man we knew prior to the early morning of his tragic death," the statement reads.

Early on Aug. 23, Smith called 911 from his speeding Toyota on Interstate 85 in Guilford County, saying he had a handgun and was considering suicide. Archdale police stopped him about 5 a.m., and shot him when they thought he was reaching for a gun, according to the medical examiner's report.