BAY CITY, MI -- Laboratory results indicate a Bay City motorcyclist was exceptionally intoxicated when he was cut in half at the waist following a brief police chase.

First Lt. David Simon, commander of the Michigan State Police Tri-City Post, said troopers on Feb. 19 received toxicology reports from the state police Crime Lab in Lansing in the case of Christopher J. Henry.

"He showed 0.214 grams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood, so 21 percent is where he would have been," Simon said. To clarify, Simon was referring to the 0.214 percent blood alcohol content measured in the test.

In Michigan, a person is legally intoxicated when their blood alcohol level reaches 0.08 percent. A person is considered super drunk at 0.17 percent.

The 47-year-old Henry died shortly before 10 p.m. on Sunday, July 5. Troopers driving through Bay City's South End on a grant-funded drunken driving crackdown spotted Henry driving a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, traveling north on Broadway near McGraw at a high rate of speed and swerving, Simon previously said.

"When he made his initial turn, (troopers) had to swerve to avoid him," Simon has said.

After Henry turned east onto Lafayette, troopers activated their car's lights and sirens and tried to initiate a stop.

"He accelerated away from them right away," the lieutenant has said. "He continued to Madison, where he took the curve a little bit wide."

The motorcycle struck the curb on the south side of King's Party Store's parking lot at 1029 S. Madison Ave. Henry then struck a cable attached to a utility pole and continued on to hit a tree just beyond it, Simon said.

The motorcycle continued down the road for about another 400 feet.

Simon said the samples were sent to the Crime Lab in July and he did not know why it took so long to get results.

Though troopers were unable to definitively determine where Henry was coming from immediately preceding the crash, Simon said no further investigation is needed on the case.