     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: THE DECEASED WAS LAST SEEN ALIVE ON JULY 24, 1996 PRIOR TO GOING TO BED.  SHE COMPLAINED OF STOMACH PAINS OVER THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS.  ON JULY 25, 1996 ABOUT 10:15 PM HER UNCLE WENT TO CHECK ON HER AND FOUND THE DECEASED DEAD IN HER BEDROOM.  THE DECEASED HAD BEEN UNDER PSYCHIATRIC CARE AT NEW HORIZONS.
     ACCORDING TO THE FAMILY THE DECEASED SMOKED AND DRANK BEER ON OCCASION.  SHE HAD BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA AND WAS TREATED BY NEW HORIZONS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER.  SHE HAD BEEN HOSPITALIZED AT JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO IN THE PSYCHIATRIC WARD.  OTHER THAN THAT SHE HAD BEEN HEALTHY AND ONLY COMPLAINED OF MENSTRUAL PAIN AND OCCASIONAL HEADACHES.  SHE HAD NOT EXPRESSED ANY SUICIDAL IDEATIONS DURING THE PAST FIVE YEARS OF HER TREATMENT AND APPEARED FAIRLY HAPPY.  SHE HAD BEEN PRESCRIBED XANAX, COGENTIN, THITHIXENE, BENADRYL, THORAZINE AND NAVANE.
     