ACCORDING TO THE INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION:  THE DECEDENT WAS THE CARETAKER FOR MS. D. TAYLOR, SHE LAST SAW HIM APPROXIMATELY ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1996 AT 9:00PM.  HE HAD COMPLAINED OF STOMACH PAINS AND VOMITING FOR SEVERAL DAYS BUT HAD NOT RECEIVED MEDICAL ATTENTION.  CONCERNS CAUSED HER TO REQUEST FOR POLICE ASSISTANCE.  POLICE AND FIRE-RESCUE RESPONDED AND GAINED ENTRY THROUGH A WINDOW OF THE RESIDENCE.  HE WAS FOUND ON THE MASTER BATHROOM FLOOR.  

MEDICAL HISTORY:   THE DECEDENT WAS UNDER DOCTOR N. SCHNEIDER'S (#534-2916) CARE FOR HYPERTENSION AND ARTERIOSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, LAST VISIT WAS APPROXIMATELY 6 MTHS AGO.  MEDICATION PRESCRIBED; DIAZIDE.  NO PREVIOUS HOSPITALIZATIONS NOTED.  HE WAS ALSO, TREATED FOR GOUT ON DECEMBER 13, 1996, BY DR. P. STEARNS (#652-6449).  ALSO, ON THIS DATE HE COMPLAINED OF MILD ABDOMINAL PAINS, EXAM REFLECTED MILD  GENERAL TENDERNESS, SOFT TO THE TOUCH.  HE WAS GIVEN A SUPPOSITORY FOR NAUSEA AND PLACED ON A LIQUID DIET.  HE REFUSED TO ALLOW VITAL SIGNS OR TEMPERATURE TO BE TAKEN.  HIS PREVIOUS MEDICAL HISTORY REFLECTED THE FOLLOWING;  PREVIOUS FOOD POISONING.  

MEDICATIONS TRANSPORTED:  DYAZIDE (88), VICODIN (0), CATAFLAM (0), AND TRIAMTERENE (0).