    ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, THE DECEASED WAS A RESIDENT AT A BOARDING HOME THROUGH THE GUARDIANSHIP PROGRAM OF DADE COUNTY.  ON OCTOBER 16, 1996, WHILE AT THE BOARDING HOME, HE BECAME INVOLVED IN A DISPUTE WITH ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL AT THE BOARDING HOME AND WAS STRUCK IN THE HEAD WITH POSSIBLY A CHAIR OR A TABLE LEG.  HE WAS TAKEN TO SOUTH SHORE MEDICAL CENTER WITH MULTIPLE FACIAL LACERATIONS AND ABRASIONS.  SWELLING WAS NOTED UNDER THE BRIDGE OF HIS NOSE.  CT SCAN OF ORBITS REVEALED NO APPARENT FRACTURE.  TREATMENT WAS MINISTERED AND HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOR FURTHER TREATMENT AND CARE.
    UPON ARRIVAL AT THE EMERGENCY ROOM, HE WAS RESPONSIVE AND DENIED ANY LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS.  HE WAS TAKEN TO X-RAY WHERE A CT SCAN OF THE BRAIN REVEALED RIGHT PERIORBITAL SOFT TISSUE SWELLING WHICH HAS DECREASED IN SIZE.  SOFT TISSUE SWELING OF THE RIGHT TEMPORAL SCALP AND THE OCCIPITAL SCALP WHICH HAD ALSO DECREASED IN SIZE.  DISLOCATED LENS OF THE RIGHT EYE WAS ALSO NOTED.  IMPRESSION:  PERIVENTRICULAR WHITE MATTER CHANGES SECONDARY TO ISCHEMIC CHANGES, LEFT FRONTAL LOBE INFARCT OF INDETERMINATE AGE, RIGHT TEMPORAL OLD INFARCT WITH LACUNAR INFARCT OF THE RIGHT CAUDATE NUCLEUS, CALCIFIED ANURYSMAL BASILAR ARTERY WHICH IS ELONGATED, ALTHOUGH CANNOT EXCLUDE THROMBUS FORMATION WITHIN THE BASILAR ARTERY, CEREBELLAR DEGENERATION, LOW DENSITY IN THE VERMIS.  FOLLOW-UP WAS RECOMMENDED FOR BETTER EVALUATION OF THIS LESSION, DEFORMITY OF THE RIGHT LAMINA PAPYRACEA WHICH COULD BE SECONDARY TO FRACTURE VERSUS THE PATIENT HAD PRIOR SURGERY, SPHENOID AND ETHMOIDAL SINUS DISEASE, DISLOCATED RIGHT LENS WITH PERIORBITAL SOFT TISSUE SWELLING WHICH HAS DECREASED IN SIZE SINCE PRIOR STUDY.  TREATMENT WAS CONTINUED, HOWEVER, HIS CONDITION CONTINUED TO DETERIORATED AND ON NOVEMBER 18, 1996, AT 12:20A.M., HE EXPIRED.
    HE HAS A PAST MEDICAL HISTORY OF HYPERTENSION AND ATHEROSCLEROTIC HEART DISEASE.