    ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  ON JULY 22, 1996 DECEASED AND HIS OLDER BROTHER WERE WALKING HOME FROM SCHOOL ABT. 3:00 P.M..   WHILE ENROUTE HOME, THEY FOUND A BUNDGY ROPE WITH A "S" HOOK ON EACH END.   AT SOME POINT THE BROTHERS SEPARATED AT WHICH TIME THE DECEASED RETURNED HOME.   THE OLDER BROTHER ALSO RETURNED HOME ABT. 5:00 P.M. AND FOUND THE DECEASED HANGING ON A FENCE.   POLICE AND FIRE RESCUE RESPONDED AND FOUND HIM A KNEELING POSITION WITH ONE END OF THE CORD AROUND THE FENCE AND THE OTHER AROUND HIS NECK.  HE WAS UNRESPONSIVE , WITHOUT VITAL SIGNS AND IN ASYSTOLE RHYTHM.  HE WAS INTUBATED AND TRANSPORTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL WHERE HE ARRIVED STILL UNRESPONSIVE.  HE WAS RE-INTUBATED, MEDICATIONS WERE ADMINISTERED AND CPR CONTINUED BUT TO NO AVAIL, HE REMAINED UNRESPONSIVE AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 7:48 P.M.
    FAMILY MEMBERS STATED THAT HE WAS A NORMAL ACTIVE CHILD AND WAS NOT DEPRESSED.