     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  THE DECEASED WAS LAST KNOWN TO BE ALIVE ON NOVEMBER  10,1996 WHEN HE SPOKE TO HIS EX-IN-LAWS ON THE PHONE.   ON NOVEMBER 16, 1996 AT 12:41 PM.,  HIS EX-IN-LAWS, CONCERNED ABOUT HIS WELFARE, RESPONDED TO HIS RESIDENCE AND FOUND HIM DEAD IN ADVANCED DECOMPOSITION.
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     POLICE RESPONDED TO THE SCENE AND VIEWED THE DECEASED EXPIRED.  THE LAST PERSON TO SEE HIM ADVISED THAT THE DECEASED HAD COMPLAINED OF SWOLLEN LEGS AND HYPERTENSION.   HE REPORTEDLY WAS SUFFERING FROM AIDS. MEDICATIONS SENT TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINER DEPARTMENT INCLUDED: PRILOSEC, DIPHENOXYLATE, PRENATAL, DANOCRINE, SMZ-TMP, BACTRIM, SULFAMETHOXAZOLE, RETROVIR, KLONOPIN, PROZAC, PRENATAL, AND ZOLOFT.
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     MOTHER OF THE DECEASED CALLED THIS OFFICE AND ADVISED THE DECEASED WAS SUFFERING WITH AIDS, AND HAD BIPOLAR DISORDER.  HAD BEEN DEPRESSED IN THE PAST AND ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY OVERDOSE. WAS TAKEN TO HOLLYWOOD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.  WAS A DRUG USER (COCAINE, AND HAD SHOT HEROIN AT LEAST ONCE), HE WAS ALSO A HOMOSEXUAL.  WAS BEING TREATED AT A CAC-HMO CLINIC, AND WAS HOSPITALIZED AT THE CLEVELAND CLINIC LAST YEAR, FOR GALL BLADDER SURGERY.  SHE FURTHER STATED THAT SHE FOUND THREE (3) VIALS OF MEDICATION (PROBABLY "DIFLUCAN")  ON TOP OF BATHROOM SINK, VIALS WERE FULL. SHE FLUSHED IT DOWN THE TOILET.


                      ***  REFILED ON FEBRUARY 26,1997  ---  IP  ***

