     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, ON AUGUST 25, 1996, P.M., THE  DECEASED  ATTENDED A BAPTISM AND RECEPTION AT THE HOLIDAY INN LOCATED ON HALLANDALE BEACH BLVD. AT ABOUT  8:30 PM., HE WENT TO VISIT FRIENDS AT THEIR APARTMENT. T.    ACCORDING TO THE FRIENDS, WHEN HE ARRIVED  HE WAS INTOXICATED AND REQUESTED SOME DRUGS FROM THEM, SPECIFICALLY " PERCOCET" .   HE WENT INTO THE BATHROOM AND  STAYED THERE FOR ABOUT  FIVE TO FIFTEEN MINITUES.  AFTER LEAVING THE BATHROOM,  HE SAT AT THE KITCHEN TABLE AND BECAME PROGRESSIVELY  DROWSY THEN COLLAPSED TO THE FLOOR.  ABT. 9:30 PM,  THE FRIENDS NOTIFIED HIS WIFE AND SUBSEQUENTLY REQUESTED FIRE RESCUE.  UPON THEIR ARRIVAL HE WAS FOUND EXPIRED.
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      POLICE RESPONDED TO THE SCENE AND VIEWED THE DECEASED  WITH NO VISIBLE SIGNS OF TRAUMA.ACCORDING TO HIS WIFE, HE HAS NO PAST MEDICAL HISTORY OTHER THAN SHOULDER PAIN.   SHE ALSO STATED THAT HE DID NOT ABUSE DRUGS OR ALCOHOL. 

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