     ACCORDING TO THE INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION:  THE DECEASED WAS AN ELDERLY MALE WHO REPORTEDLY WAS HOMELESS AND LIVED ON THE STREETS. HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO CROSS SOUTH WEST 24TH STREET AT 79TH AVENUE WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY 1982 DODGE TRAVELING EAST ON 24TH STREET. 
     EMERGENCY RESCUE UNITS TRANSPORTED HIM TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL WHERE HE REMAINED AN INPATIENT UNTIL HE EXPIRED ON OCTOBER 26, 1996, AT 9:35 PM. 