     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  THE DECEASED REPORTEDLY LIVED ALONE IN A SINGLE FAMILY HOME.  HIS DAUGHTER VISITED HIM ON A DAILY BASIS AND LAST SAW HIM ALIVE ON OCTOBER 4,1996 AT 8:00 PM.  AT THAT TIME THE DECEASED WAS COMPLAINED OF SEVERE HEAD ACHE, WHICH WAS UNUSUAL FOR HIM.    ON OCTOBER 5,1996 AT 9:30 PM., THE DAUGHTER RETURNED TO CHECK ON THE DECEASED AND FOUND HIM UNRESPONSIVE, LYING SUPINE ON LIVING ROOM FLOOR, APPARENTLY EXPIRED.  FIRE RESCUE WAS SUMMONED AND UPON RESPONDING CONFIRMED EXPIRATION.
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     POLICE RESPONDED TO THE SCENE AND VIEWED THE DECEASED WITH MINOR INJURY TO HIS LIP WITH MINIMAL AMOUNT OF BLOOD.  HIS EYEGLASSES WERE ABOUT TEN FEET AWAY FROM HIM AS IF THROWN TO THE FLOOR, AND HIS SLIPPERS WERE ABOUT SIX FEET AWAY ON THREE STEPS TOWARDS THE HALLWAY.  A SMALL AMOUNT OF BLOOD STAIN WAS OBSERVED ON THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS MOUTH.  ACCORDING TO HIS DAUGHTER,  THE DECEASED WAS IN RELATIVELY GOOD HEALTH FOR HIS AGE, EXCEPT THAT HE SUFFERED FROM HYPERTENSION. SHE FURTHER STATED THAT THE DECEASED HAD ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY OVERDOSE, IN MARCH 1996.   MEDICATIONS SENT TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINER DEPARTMENT CONSISTED OF: ALPRAZOLAM, AMBIEN, LANOXIN, LOTENSIN, AND PROZAC.
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     HE WAS BEING TREATED BY DR. RALPH FRANKEL,944-5566, WHO ADVISED THE DECEASED HAD HISTORY OF DEPRESSION, STATUS POST SUICIDE ATTEMPT BY OVERDOSE, CHRONIC DIARRHEA, ARTERIOSCLEROSIS, PSYCH PROBLEMS, CARDIOMEGALY.  HAD RECENTLY BEEN AT PARKWAY HOSPITAL FOR AN HYPERVENTILATING EPISODE. 
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     DAUGHTERS REQUESTED AN AUTOPSY.