     ACCORDING TO THE INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION:  THE DECEASED WAS AN ELDERLY MALE WHO LIVED AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS WITH FAMILY MEMBERS. 
     ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1996, HE COMPLAINED OF CHEST PAINS EARLY IN THE EVENING. THEY BECAME MORE INTENSE LATER AND WAS ASSOCIATED WITH COUGHING. AT ABOUT MID-NIGHT HE BECAME UNRESPONSIVE AND HIS WIFE SUMMONED EMERGENCY RESCUE UNITS. UPON THEIR ARRIVAL HE WAS UNRESPONSIVE, SHOWED NO VITAL SIGNS. THEY INITIATED CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATIVE MEASURES AS HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO CEDARS MEDICAL CENTER.  HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD UPON ARRIVAL AT THE EMERGENCY ROOM.
     ACCORDING TO HIS WIFE HE HAD NOT BEEN TREATED BY ANY DOCTORS FOR ANY ILLNESSES, HE WAS NOT TAKING ANY MEDICATION. HE COMPLAINED OF A MILD PAIN IN THE LOWER ABDOMEN SEVERAL TIMES IN THE RECENT PAST, THEN THE PAIN IN THE CHEST WITH DIFFICULTY BREATHING. HE DRANK WINE OCCASIONALLY, STOPPED SMOKING TEN YEARS AGO, HE DID NOT HAVE OR COMPLAIN OF HAVING A FEVER.    