     ACCORDING TO THE INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION:  THE DECEASED WAS AN ELDERLY MALE WHO LIVED ALONE AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS.  ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1996, POLICE WERE CALLED BY THE SECURITY GUARD OF THE DECEASED'S BUILDING IN REFERENCE TO A REPORT THAT HE COULD BE DEAD, SEATED ON THE BALCONY OF HIS APARTMENT. FIRE RESCUE UNITS ALONG WITH POLICE RESPONDED AND FORCEFULLY ENTERED THE APARTMENT WHICH WAS LOCKED WITH THREE DEAD BOLT LOCKS AND CHAINED FROM THE INSIDE. HE WAS FOUND EXPIRED AND IN A SLIGHTLY DECOMPOSED STATE. THERE WERE SEVERAL NIGHT LIGHTS ON INSIDE THE APARTMENT, THE BALCONY SLIDING DOOR WAS AJAR, AND THE DECEASED'S BIRD WAS LOOSE INSIDE THE APARTMENT. 
     PAST MEDICAL HISTORY OF TREATMENT DR. D. O'LEARY (960-6973), HE TREATED HIM FOR HEART PROBLEMS. HIS MEDICATION; OXACILLIN AND LANOXIN WERE TRANSPORTED TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINERS DEPARTMENT ALONG WITH THE DECEASED. 