     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  DECEASED WAS LAST SEEN ALIVE ON NOVEMBER 18, 1996  ABT. 11:00 P.M. BY HIS MOTHER.   THE FOLLOWING DAY, SHE WENT TO CHECK ON HIM AND FOUND HIM LYING JUST INSIDE THE  FRONT DOOR OF THE TRAILER (WHICH WAS IN THE REAR OF HER RESIDENCE).   POLICE WERE SUMMONED AND FOUND HIM EXPIRED WITH A HYPODERMIC NEEDLE INSIDE HIS LEFT HAND.    
      DECEASED HAD A HISTORY OF HEROIN, CRACK AND COCAINE ABUSE.  HE HAD BEEN TREATED IN THE PAST AT V.A. MEDICAL CENTER.  PAST MEDICAL HISTORY TO BE OBTAINED.
***PMH:  DECEASED WAS TREATED IN JANUARY 1995 AT VETERAN ADMINISTRATION HOSPITAL AND HAD A HISTORY OF HYPERTENSION, CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE AND UNDERWENT CATARAC SURGERY.

                                                                                  ***REFILED 3/19/97***
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