     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  DECEASED WAS LAST SEEN ALIVE BY HIS FRIEND ON OCTOBER 21, 1996.   ON OCTOBER 24, 196, HIS FRIEND RESPONDED TO HIS RESIDENCE AND GAINED ENTRY WITH A KEY.  UPON DOING SO, THE DECEASED WAS FOUND LYING NUDE IN BED, EXPIRED.   POLICE RESPONDED AND OBSERVED NUMEROUS BOTTLES OF VODKA IN THE BEDROOM AND THROUGHOUT THE RESIDENCE.
      DECEASED FRIEND STATED THAT HE HAD KNOWN HIM FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS AND HE HAD BEEN A CHRONIC DRINKER SINCE THAT TIME.   HE HAD BEEN DRINKING MORE HEAVILY RECENTLY.  HE ALSO ADVISED THAT THE DECEASED WAS A HOMOSEXUAL.  THERE IS NO KNOWN MEDICAL HISTORY AT THIS TIME.