     ACCORDING TO THE INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION:  THE DECEASED WAS AN ELDERLY MALE WHO WAS KNOWN AS "THE GENERAL", ALSO KNOWN TO BE A HOMELESS VAGRANT, HE HUNG AROUND SOUTH BEACH AREA AND SLEPT IN THE STORAGE ROOM IN AT 800 OCEAN DRIVE. 
      HE WAS LAST SEEN ALIVE AT ABOUT 6:45 AM, ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1996, AT THAT TIME HE COMPLAINED TO THE PROPRIETOR OF THE BUSINESS NEAR BY OF HAVING CHEST PAINS. AT ABOUT 9:50 AM, HE FOUND HIM DEAD IN THE STORAGE ROOM.
      PAST MEDICAL HISTORY OF TREATMENT FOR HYPOTENSION AND SHORTNESS OF BREATH, DIZZINESS AND DIAPHORESIS AS WELL AS ALCOHOL ABUSE. HE HAD BEEN SEEN AT SOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL ON DECEMBER 6, 1996. NO MEDICATION WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINERS DEPARTMENT.  