     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: DECEASED WAS BORN AT PARKWAY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER. COMPLICATIONS AT BIRTH INCLUDED THE UNBILICAL CORD BEING WRAPPED AROUND HIS NECK AND A BLOOD CLOT IN THE PLACENTA WHICH DEPRIVED THE DEC'D OF OXYGEN. HE SUFFERED FROM CEREBRAL PALSY AS WELL AS BRAIN DAMAGE. HE WAS BLIND AND DEAF AND ALSO SUFFERED FROM SEIZURES. APPROX THREE MONTHS AFTER BIRTH, A FEEDING TUBE WAS INSERTED WHICH HE WAS FED FROM AND GIVEN MEDICATIONS.
     NOVEMBER 5, 1996 THE DECEASED WAS BROUGHT TO HIS AUNT'S HOUSE WHERE HE WAS PLACED ON A BLANKET. A SUCTIONING MACHINE WAS THEN USED TO REMOVE MUCUS FROM HIS NOSE AND MOUTH. HE WAS THEN PLACED ON HIS SIDE. AT APPROX 10:00 P.M. THE REPORTER FELL ASLEEP AND WHEN SHE AWOKE AT APROX 12:20 A.M. THE NEXT MORNING, SHE WENT OUT TO THE LIVING ROOM TO CHECK ON THE DEC'D AND FOUND HIM ON HIS STOMACH ON HIS BLANKET. UPON TURNING HIM OVER, SHE NOTICED HIS EYES OPEN AND HE WAS UNRESPONSIVE. SHE INITIATED C.P.R. AND HER BOYFRIEND SUMMONED FIRE-RESCUE. HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD UPON THEIR ARRIVAL.
    THE DECEASED GRANDMOTHER STATES THAT ON NOVEMBER 5, 1996 AT APPROX 4:30 P.M. THE DEC'D HAD A SEIZURE AND APPEARED TO HAVE SUFFERED NO COMPLICATIONS. SHE STATES THAT SHE WAS THE DEC'D GUARDIAN BECAUSE HIS MOTHER WAS ONLY 16 AT BIRTH, HOWEVER HIS MOTHER SHARED IN HIS CARE.
     MEDICATIONS TRANSPORTED TO MEDICAL EXAMINER OFFICE INCLUDE: KLONOPIN, ROBINUL INJECTABLE, VALPROIC ACID AND ONE BOTTLE OF A RED LIQUID (LABEL WORN - NOT LEGIBLE).