    ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, ON AUGUST 21, 1996, THE DECEASED WAS AT HOME WHEN HE BEGAN TO EXPERIENCE SEIZURE LIKE ACTIVITY.  HIS WIFE CALLED FIRE RESCUE WHO RESPONDED AND UPON THEIR ARRIVAL, FOUND HIM RESPONSIVE, BUT VERY COMBATIVE.  HIS WIFE STATED THAT HE HAS LUNG CANCER AND IN APRIL OF 1996 HAD HIS RIGHT LUNG REMOVED AND HAD CHEMOTHERAPHY.  HE WAS EXAMINED BY FIRE RESCUE.  BREATHSOUNDS WERE CLEAR, AND EKG MONITOR  SHOWED SINUS TACH.   EMERGENCY TREATMENT WAS ADMINISTERED AND HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO BAPTIST HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM.

    UPON ARRIVAL  AT THE EMERGENCY ROOM, HE WAS FACE DOWN ON THE STRETCHER.  HE WAS CYANOTIC, APNEIC, PULSELESS AND IN CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST WITH EKG MONITOR SHOWING ASYSTOLE.  ADVANCE CARDIAC RESUSCITATION MEASURES WERE ADMINISTERED SUCCESSFULLY.   AFTER RESUSCITATION  S T WAS 140'S,  B/P 120/70 AND WITH A STRONG PULSE.    ADMITTING IMPRESSION:  S/P CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST, R/O MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, R/O CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT, BRUIT, LUNG CANCER, S/P RIGHT PNEUMONECTOMY, RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, HISTORY OF ASTHMA AND CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE, HYPOTENSION, ANEMIA AND RULE OUT SEPSIS.  HE WAS ALSO WITH LEFT OCCIPITAL LESION, POSSIBLE INFARCT VERSUS METASTATIC LESION AND A SUPERIMPOSED PROBLEM OF LIKELY POST ANOXIC ENCEPHALOPATHY.   ADVANCE MEDICAL TREATMENT WAS ADMINISTERED, HOWEVER, HIS CONDITION CONTINUED TO DETERIORATE.  HE BECAME UNRESPONSIVE TO PAIN AND WAS WITH NO BRAINSTEM REFLUXES.  TREATMENT WAS CONTINUED, HOWEVER, TO NO AVAIL AND ON AUGUST 24, AT  9:37P.M., HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD.    

     HE HAS A PAST MEDICAL HISTORY OF LUNG CANCER, ASTHMA,  CARDIAC PROBLEMS INCLUDING MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, HYPERTENSION,  DIABETES MELLITUS,  HIATAL HERNIA AND DIVERTICULITIS.  HE ALSO HAS A HISTORY OF A HEAVY TOBACCO SMOKER.