    ACCORDING TO THE INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: THE DECEASED LIVED ALONE AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS. HE HAD ARRANGED WITH A FRIEND TO PICK HIM FOR A RIDE TO WORK EACH NIGHT.  ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1996, HE WAS NOT IN PLACE WHEN HIS RIDE CAME, THE FRIEND CALLED HIS RESIDENCE BUT GOT NO ANSWER. HE THEN CALLED A NEIGHBOR WHO WENT OVER AND CHECKED ON DECEASED, HE WAS OBSERVED SLUMPED OVER 
ON HIS COUCH AND FIRE RESCUE UNITS WERE CALLED, HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD UPON THEIR ARRIVAL. 