    ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, THE DECEASED  WAS EMPLOYED AS A REPAIRMAN FOR SOUTHERNBELL.   ON JANUARY 30, 1996, ABT. 11:10A.M., HE WAS WORKING AT 2160 S.W. 10TH STREET WHEN HE WAS SHOT IN THE EYE DURING A ROBBERY ATTEMPT.  HE WAS TAKEN TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS TREATED FOR A GUNSHOT WOUND TO THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS FACE, FRACTURE OF THE LEFT ZYGOMATIC MAXILLARY COMPLEX FRACTURE AND MASTOID BONES AS WELL AS A TRAUMATIC RUPTURE OF THE LEFT GLOBE.  DIAGNOSIS:  GUNSHOT WOUND TO LEFT FACE, TRAUMATIC INJURY TO LEFT GLOBE.  TREATMENT WAS ADMINISTERED AND ON FEBRUARY 4, 1996, HE WAS DISCHARGED.  
     ON NOVEMBER 24, 1996, HE WAS WAS AT HOME WHEN ACCORDING TO HIS MOTHER, HE COMPLAINED OF  A HEADACHE AND STARTED VOMITING.  FIRE RESCUE WAS CALLED, ADMINISTERED EMERGENCY TREATMENT AND TRANSPORTED HIM TO PARKWAY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER.
    UPON ARRIVAL AT THE EMERGENCY ROOM, HE WAS FOUND TO BE HEMIPLEGIC, AGITATED AND NOT SPEAKING.  HE WAS TAKEN TO X-RAY WHERE AN EMERGENCY C T SCAN OF THE BRAIN WAS PERFORMED AND REVEALED A LARGE RIGHT FRONTAL INTRACEREBRAL HEMATOMA.  DIAGNOSIS:  RIGHT FRONTAL TEMPORAL HEMATOMA INTRAVENTRICULAR HEMORRHAGE.  HE WAS TAKEN TO SURGERY WHERE A RIGHT FRONTAL TEMPORAL CRANIOTOMY; EVACUATION OF INTRACEREBRAL HEMATOMA; PLACEMENT OF SUBGALEAL DRAIN; EVACUATION OF INTRAVENTRICULAR HEMATOMA WAS PERFORMED.  TREATMENT WAS CONTINUED, HOWEVER, HIS CONDITION DETERIORATED AND ON DECEMBER 2, 1996, AT 1:21P.M., HE EXPIRED.