     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: DECEASED WAS LAST SEEN FOUR DAYS PRIOR TO JULY 11, 1996 WHEN MIAMI FIRE-RESCUE WAS SUMMONED AND RESPONDED TO HIS RESIDENCE AFTER NEIGHBORS COMPLAINED OF A FOUL ODOR EMITTING FROM HIS RESIDENCE.  UPON THEIR ARRIVAL, FORCED ENTRY WAS MADE AND THE DECEASED WAS DISCOVERED SITTING IN BED LEANING AGAINST THE WALL. HE HAD EXPIRED AND WAS IN ADVANCED STAGES OF DECOMPOSITION.
     
     SCENE OBSERVATIONS: NEXT TO THE DEC'D BED, THERE WERE SEVERAL CANS OF BEER FOUND AS WELL AS NUMEROUS CANS FOUND SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE APARTMENT. A SEARCH OF HIS WALLET REVEALED NUMEROUS PRESCRIPTIONS. HIS PRIVATE PHYSICIAN WAS CONTACTED AND HE STATED HE WAS TREATING THE DEC'D FOR HYPERTENSION, CHRONIC BRONCHITIS AND DIABETES. HE ALSO STATES DEC'D WAS A CHRONIC ALCOHOLIC.  ACCORDING TO NEIGHBORS, HE WOULD DRINK ALL DAY AND KEEP TO HIMSELF. WHEN THEY LAST SAW HIM A FEW DAYS BEFORE HIS DEATH, HE APPEARED TO BE SWOLLEN. THE APARTMENT WAS PROPERLY SECURED AND THERE WERE NO INDICATIONS OF STRUGGLES OR FOUL PLAY. HIS NEIGHBORS STATED THAT HE HAS NO RELATIVES IN THIS COUNTRY, ONLY IN CUBA.