     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, ON DECEMBER 19, 1996 AT ABOUT 4:00 AM.,  A NEIGHBOR OF THE DECEASED NOTICED THE DOOR TO HER APARTMENT OPEN ABD WASTE BASKET AND BROOM NEXT TO DOOR, AS IF SHE WAS CLEANING.   AT 2:30 PM., THE SAME NEIGHBOR BECAME CONCERNED WHEN HE OBSERVED THAT THE DOOR TO HER APARTMENT WAS STILL OPEN.  HE ENTERED THE APARTMENT AND FOUND THE DECEASED EXPIRED IN HER BEDROOM. 
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     POLICE RESPONDED AND VIEWED THE DECEASED LYING ON HER RIGHT SIDE ON BEDROOM FLOOR, WITH THE PHONE NEXT TO ONE OF HER HANDS AND AN ASTHMA INHALER NEXT TO THE OTHER.  THERE WERE NO SIGNS OF TRAUMA.   SHE REPORTEDLY HAD HISTORY OF ASTHMA AND HAD BEEN COMPLAINING ABOUT IT FOR THE LAST FEW DAYS.  AN AEROSOL MACHINE WAS OBSERVED IN HER NIGHTSTAND. MEDICATIONS:THEO-DUR, PREDNISONE, VENTOLIN INHALER, UNI-DUR.
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     AS PER FAMILY MEMBERS,  THE DECEASED HAD BEEN SUFFERING WITH ASTHMA ALL HER LIFE.  SHE WOULD HAVE ASTHMA ATTACKS EVERY DAY.  SHE ALSO HAD OXYGEN AT HOME.
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     WAS LAST SEEN AT CENTRO MEDICO DE SWEETWATER, BY DR. A. GARCIA-PRIETO, 221-8661, ON DECEMBER 27,1996.  JUST CAME IN FOR MEDICATIONS.  HAD SOME RONCHI AND WHEEZING AT THAT TIME.  FIRST SEEN ON NOVEMBER 16,1996, WHEN SHE WAS SEEN FOR AN ASTHMATIC CRISIS.  DIAGNOSIS:  CHRONIC ASTHMA.  PRESCRIBED THEO-DUR AND SEREVENT FOR AEROSOL INHALATION.