     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION AND INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM NORTH SHORE MEDICAL CENTER,  ON NOVEMBER 1, 1996 THE DECEASED WAS TRANSPORTED TO HOSPITAL BY HIS WIFE COMPLAINING OF FEVER OFF AND ON FOR ABT. ONE WEEK AND A PRODUCTIVE COUGH.  HE HAD A HISTORY OF INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS, HYPERTENSION, MYOCARDIAL INFACTION, CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE AND RIGHT TOES AMPUTATION.
    UPON ARRIVAL TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM,  BLOOD PRESSURE: 126/56, PULSE: 22, RESPIRATIONS: 104.  HE WAS ADMITTED WITH A DIAGNOSIS OF RULE OUT SEPSIS, RENAL FAILURE.  SHORTLY AFTER BEING ADMITTED, HE BEGAN HAVING SHORTNESS OF BREATH AND REQUIRED INTUBATION.  HE WAS TAKEN TO THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT.  A CHEST X-RAY SHOWED LARGE CONSOLIDATION RIGHT LOWER LOBE, POSSIBLE PNEUMONITIS VERSUS CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE.  AN EKG SHOWED ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION.  HIS CONDITION CONTINUED TO DETERIORATE.  ON NOVEMBER 2, 1996 ABT. 5:24 A.M., HE WAS WITHOUT A PULSE OR BLOOD PRESSURE. ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT WAS ADMINISTERED BUT TO NO AVAIL, HE REMAINED UNRESPONSIVE AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THAT TIME.
    