     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, ON OCTOBER 19,1996 A.M., THE DECEASED DROVE TO A RESIDENCE LOCATED AT 10377 S.W. 176TH STREET, AND CONTACTED THE OCCUPANT OF THE RESIDENCE WHO WAS HOUSE SITTING.  THE DECEASED REQUESTED A MIXTURE OF APPARENT HEROINE TO BE INJECTED.  HE WENT TO THE BATHROOM AND AFTER INJECTING SELF, BECAME UNRESPONSIVE.   THE DECEASED WAS DRAGGED OUT OF THE RESIDENCE BY THE OCCUPANT AND RESCUE WAS SUMMONED.  UPON THEIR ARRIVAL THE DECEASED WAS FOUND EXPIRED.
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     POLICE RESPONDED TO THE SCENE AND VIEWED THE DECEASED LYING SUPINE ON THE GROUND, SOUTH OF THE ENTRANCE DOOR, WITH A CUT TO LEFT TRICEP AREA.
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      JMH PATIENT # 097-78-65.   LAST ADMITTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ON SEPTEMBER 28, 1996 TO SEPTEMBER 29, 1996.  DISCHARGE DIAGNOSIS: GUNSHOT WOUND TO LOWER EXTREMITIES, SCROTUM AND RIGHT BUTTOCK. PAST HISTORY OF EXPLORATORY LAPAROTOMY IN 1980 WITH SPLENECTOMY AFTER BEING STRUCK WITH A CAR JACK, RIGHT HAND SURGERY STATUS POST GUNSHOT WOUND  IN 1970'S. SURGERY TO REPAIR RIGHT EAR DRUM IN 1979. 


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