Markie Dwane Anderson, 44

Markie Anderson, 44, a black man, died at California Hospital on Sept. 20 after being admitted for gastric pain and dizziness.

According to LAPD Central Division Lt. Paul Vernon, investigators have concluded that Anderson was suffering complications from a 13-year-old shooting injury, thus making the death a homicide.

Anderson had been shot near 5th and Crocker streets in downtown Los Angeles in 1994. The shooting rendered him a paraplegic, and he lived on Skid Row thereafter in a wheelchair.

Sheila Burton, a black woman nicknamed "Chocalate" who police described as a drug dealer, was convicted of aggravated assault in the case and served five years in prison. After Anderson's death last month, however, police arrested her again, within a couple blocks of where Anderson had originally been shot. She was back on Skid Row, in the same area. She now faces a murder charge.