     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: THE DECEASED WAS RENTING A ROOM FROM A FRIEND WHO WAS ALSO SUB-LEASING ANOTHER ROOM INSIDE AN APARTMENT LOCATED AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS. 
     DECEASED WAS LAST SEEN ALIVE ON OCTOBER 12, 1996 AT APPROX 10:30 P.M. IN THE LIVINGROOM OF THE APARTMEMENT. HE WAS WATCHING TELEVISION AT THAT TIME. HIS FRIEND RETIRED FOR THE EVENING. HIS FRIEND STATES SHE WAS HOME ALL DAY ON OCTOBER 13, 1996 HOWEVER SHE OBSERVED THE DEC'D ROOM DOOR CLOSED AND ASSUMED HE WAS OUT WITH FRIENDS. MEANWHILE, HIS CLOSEST FRIEND ALSO ATTEMPTED TO CONTACT HIM BY PHONE (SEPARATE LINES) ALL DAY ON THE SAME DATE, HE ALSO GOT NO RESPONSE. HIS FRIEND ALSO REPORTS THAT DEC'D HAD NOT BEEN TO WORK FOR THE PAST THREE DAYS. 
     OCTOBER 14, 1996 AFTER HIS FRIEND MADE NUMEROUS ATTEMPTS TO CONTACT HIM BY PHONE AND WITH NEGATIVE RESPONSES, HE RESPONDED TO THE DEC'D RESIDENCE. HE AND THE DEC'D ROOMMATE FORCE-ENTERED THE DEC'D ROOM WHERE HE WAS DISCOVERED EXPIRED. HE WAS FOUND LYING IN BED COLD, STIFF AND DISCOLORED. NO OBVIOUS SIGNS OF TRAUMA OR FOUL PLAY.

     PAST MEDICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY: DECEASED FRIEND STATES HE SUFFERED SEVERE FINGER TRAUMA AFTER HE CUT HIS HAND WITH SCISSORS APPROX TWO YEARS AGO WHILE AT WORK. HE UNDERWENT RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY AT BAPTIST HOPSITAL AND WAS TAKING PRESCRIPTION PAIN KILLERS WHICH WERE TRANSPORTED TO THIS OFFICE - APAP WITH CODEINE AND HYDROCODONE. HE SMOKES TWO PACKS OF CIGARETTES A DAY AND DOES NOT USE ILLEGAL DRUGS. HE WAS FROM CHILE AND WAS TOLD AS A YOUNG CHILD THAT HE SUFFERED WITH HEART MURMURS. THE ONLY COMPLAINTS HE VOICED LATELY WAS THAT OF BACK PAINS.

                         *** REFILED ON DECEMBER 23, 1996 ***  [BAR]
