The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Friday, July 7, 1995                   TAG: 9507070442
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: PORTSMOUTH                         LENGTH: Short :   24 lines

MAN'S DEATH NOW CALLED NATURAL

The death of a 65-year-old man who was found Monday in his Princeton Place apartment was reclassified Thursday as a natural death caused by a heart attack.

Police initially investigated the death of Christopher Cayonne of 3626 Princeton Place as a homicide after finding Cayonne with an electrical cord wrapped around the upper part of his body. Cayonne also was thought to have suffered a trauma from a blunt object to the back of his head.

Thursday, police said the head trauma was likely caused by a fall. They had no explanation for the electrical cord.

Cayonne had been dead for several days when a maintenance man found him on July 3 in his apartment. . He was last seen alive by neighbors on June 28. by CNB