     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: THE DECEASED WAS LAST SEEN ALIVE ON SPET. 28, 1996 ABOUT 10:30 PM BY HER HUSBAND.  HE WENT TO BED AND LEFT THE DECEASED IN THE LIVINGROOM ON THE SOFA EATING DINNER WHICH CONSISTED OF SPARE RIBS, CHICKEN, FRIES AND BAKED BEANS.  SHE WAS ALSO PLAYING WITH HER FIVE YEAR OLD DAUGHTER.  ON SEPT. 29, 1996 HER HUSBAND AWOKE ABOUT 6:30 AM AND FOUND HER SITTING ON THE SOFA UNRESPONSIVE AND SLUMPED OVER TO THE LEFT.  THERE WERE CLUMPS OF FOOD ON HER NECK AND SHOULDERS.  HER HUSBAND CALLED 911 AND THEY ADVISED HIM TO TRY TO REMOVE ANY FOOD OBSTRUCTIONS FROM HER MOUTH.  HE TOOK A SPOON AND REMOVED TWO SPOONFULS OF FOOD FROM HER MOUTH.  FIRE RESCUE ARRIVED AND PRONOUNCED HER DEAD.
     THE DECEASED WAS NOT UNDER THE CARE OF A DOCTOR OR HOSPITAL SINCE THE BIRTH OF HER CHILD FIVE YEARS AGO.  SHE SMOKED LESS THAN A PACK OF CIGARETTES A DAY, BUT DID NOT USE DRUGS OR ALCOHOL.  SHE ALSO DID NOT EXERCISE AND WAS NOT ON ANY SPECIAL DIETS.


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