	ACCORDING TO THE INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION:  THE DECEASED WAS 
A HOMELESS PERSON WHO HAD TAKEN UP RESIDENCE UNDER THE BRIDGE WHICH CROSSED THE CANAL AT US-#1 AT S.W. WEST 187TH STREET.  
	ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1996, AT ABOUT 2:50 AM, HE WAS FOUND 
FLOATING IN THE CANAL BY ANOTHER HOMELESS PERSON WHO DWELLS UNDER THE SAME BRIDGE. IT APPEARS THAT HE FELL FROM THE TOP OF A STEEP INCLINE OF CONCRETE POLLOWS WITH THE DISTANCE OF ABOUT 20 FEET TO THE CANAL.  
     HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO COLUMBIA DEERING HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS DEATH WAS PRONOUNCED AT 3:49 AM. 
     ACCORDING TO ANOTHER BRIDGE MATE THE DECEASED WAS A DRUG ABUSER WHO USED "CRACK COCAINE" AND ALSO HAD A HISTORY OF SEIZURE DISORDER. HE HAD SPOKEN TO HIM ABOUT AN HOUR OR SO EARLIER, ADVISING HIM THAT HE HAD BEEN ROBBED OF SOME MONEY AND HIS "CRACK COCAINE" BUT WAS NOT INJURED OR BEATEN. THEY DID NOT NOTICE ANY TRAUMA OR INJURIES AT THAT TIME. 	

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