    ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, THE DECEASED LIVED ALONE AT THE ABOVE INCIDENT LOCATION AND WAS LAST SEEN ALIVE BY HIS NEIGHBOR ON OCTOBER 10, 1996.  ACCORDING TO HIS NEIGHBOR, HE HAD BEEN ILL AND WAS TREATED AT MT. SINAI MEDICAL CENTER.  ON OCTOBER 14, 1996, HE HAD NOT PICKED UP HIS NEWSPAPERS WHICH LED HIS FRIEND TO CONTACT THE BUILDING MANAGER.  THE MANAGER RESPONDED, UNLOCKED THE DOOR AND AT 1:34P.M., FOUND HIM EXPIRED AND IN AN ADVANCE STAGE OF DECOMPOSITION. 
    HE WAS RECENTLY RELEASED FROM MT. SINAI MEDICAL CENTER WITH A HISTORY OF HYPERTENSION (X 10YRS), RIGHT CEREBRALVASCULAR ACCIDENT WITH LEFT HEMIPARESIS (8/95). MEDICATIONS TRANSPORTED WERE PROSCAR 5MG,VERAPAMIL ER 240MG, BUSPAR 5MG,LOPERAMIDE 2MG.
