     ACCORDING TO THE INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION:  THE DECEASED WAS THE HOUSE GUEST OF A FRIEND. HE WAS LAST SEEN ALIVE AT ABOUT 10:30 PM, ON NOVEMBER 23, 1996. ON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1996, SHE ATTEMPTED TO AWAKEN HIM, FOUND HIM UNCONSCIOUS AND UNRESPONSIVE. SHE REPORTEDLY ATTEMPTED "C.P.R." BEFORE CALLING EMERGENCY RESCUE UNITS. HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD UPON THEIR ARRIVAL. 
     POLICE INVESTIGATION REVEALED THE DECEASED TO HAVE BRUSES ON HIS BACK THAT WERE CONSISTANT WITH HIM FALLING AGAINST THE SHOWER DOOR IN THE BATHROOM. THEY WERE ADVISED THAT THE DECEASED HAD A HISTORY OF HEAVY BEER DRINKING AND HEAVY SMOKING, HE HAD COMPLAINED OF AN UPSET STOMACH AS WELL AS SEVERE HEART BURN THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS. NO MEDICATION WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINERS DEPARTMENT. 	