     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, AND INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM THE DECEASED'S PHYSICIAN AND HER MOTHER, THE DECEASED REPORTEDLY HAD A PAST HISTORY OF ETOH AND DRUG ABUSE.  YEARS AGO SHE DEVELOPED SEPTIC NECROSIS OF HER RIGHT HIP, POSSIBLY DUE TO ETHANOL AND DRUG ABUSE.  SHE UNDERWENT HIP REPLACEMENT AT PARKWAY HOSPITAL WEST (OLD GOLDEN GLADES HOSPITAL) AND AFTERWARDS DEVELOPED INFECTION REQUIRING HER PROSTHESIS TO BE TAKEN OUT. SHE WAS LATER PLACED ON LOCAL NURSING HOMES AND AS OF LATE WAS BEING CARED AT HOME, BY HER MOTHER, AND A VISITING NURSE.
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      HER MOTHER STATED THAT ON THE EVENING OF DECEMBER 5,1996 THE DECEASED HAD COMPLAINED OF NOT FEELING WELL. SHE WAS PUT TO BED AND IN THE A.M. OF DECEMBER 6, MOTHER WASHED THE DECEASED'S FACE BUT DIDN'T NOTICE THAT SHE WAS UNRESPONSIVE.  THE VISITING NURSE CAME TO SEE HER AT THE RESIDENCE AND FOUND HER UNRESPONSIVE. HE BEGAN CPR, AND RESCUE WAS CALLED.  UPON THEIR ARRIVAL, SHE WAS FOUND EXPIRED.
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     THE DECEASED WAS BEING TREATED BY DR. RONALD HARRIS, 948-8163, TREATED HER ON AND OFF FOR TEN YEARS  AND LAST SAW HER DURING HER HOSPITALIZATION AT PARKWAY WEST, IN AUGUST/96.  SHE DID NOT HAVE ANY OTHER MEDICAL PROBLEMS.