The police report related that Stewart was seen spray painting on a wall of First Avenue subway station () in Manhattan at 2:50 AM on September 15, 1983.
According to the city's Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Elliot Gross's preliminary autopsy report, Stewart's injuries of facial bruises and abrasions on his wrists were not linked to his death, but that he died of heart failure following a heart attack that put him into a coma [REF].