    ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  DECEASED DAUGHTER ARRIVED HOME ABT. 11:00 P.M. ON SEPTEMBER 10, 1996 AND OBSERVED HIM LYING IN BED COMPLAINING OF FEELING DIZZY, WEAK AND NAUSEATED.  HE ADVISED THAT HE HAD FALLEN IN THE KITCHEN AND WAS VOMITTING BLOOD, HOWEVER, HE REFUSED TO SEEK HOSPITALIZATION.  THE FOLLOWING MORNING,  HIS DAUGHTER AWAKENED AND FOUND HIM LYING ON THE KITCHEN FLOOR UNRESPONSIVE.  THE KITCHEN DOOR WAS OPENED AND AN EMPTY BOTTLE OF COKE WAS FOUND ON THE FLOOR.   FIRE RESCUE AND POLICE WERE SUMMONED AND FOUND HIM EXPIRED WITH NO VISIBLE SIGNS OF TRAUMA.
     FAMILY MEMBERS STATED THAT HE HAD A HISTORY OF HEROIN ABUSE, HOWEVER, HE HAD JUST RECENTLY BEEN RELEASED FROM JAIL AND THEY SAW NO SIGNS OF RECENT DRUG ABUSE.