     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: DECEASED WAS LAST SEEN ALIVE DECEMBER 4, 1996 BY TENANTS OF HIS APARTMENT BUILDING. 
     DECEMBER 7, 1996 TENANTS COMPLAINED OF A FOUL ODOR EMITTING FROM THE DEC'D APARTMENT. MAINTENANCE WAS CONTACTED AND UPON HIS ARRIVAL, HE KNOCKED ON THE DOOR WITHOUT GETTING A RESPONSE. HE THEN ENTERED AND DISCOVERED THE DEC'D SITTING IN A CHAIR INSIDE THE BEDROOM, HE HAD EXPIRED AND WAS IN ADVANCED STAGES OF DECOPOSITION.  NO OBVIOUS SIGNS OF TRAUMA.
     DECEASED WAS BEING TREATED BY DR. NSIDIBE IKPE, HOWEVER HE WAS NOT AVAILABLE FOR HISTORY. MEDICATIONS TRANSPORTED TO MEDICAL EXAMINER OFFICE INCLUDE: LOTENSIN AND ALBUTEROL. 