     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: DECEMBER 28, 1995 THE DECEASED WAS AT HIS RESIDENCE WHEN HIS HEAD BECAME TANGLED IN AN ADULT HOSPITAL BED. HE WAS TAKEN TO MIAMI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS ADMITTED AND ASSESSED WITH THE FOLLOWING DIAGNOSIS: STRANGULATION WITH CARDIOPULMONARY AREEST. CT SCAN REVEALED PROGRESSIVE ANOXIC HYPOXIC EVENT. HE WAS PLACED ON A VENTILATOR AND A TRACHEOSTOMY WAS PERFORMED.  FINAL DIAGNOSIS: PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE COMA, S/P GENERALIZED ANOXIC ENCEPHALITIS SECONDARY TO A STRAGULATION EVENT, S/P PEG PLACEMENT AND TRACHEOSTOMY. HE WAS RELEASED TO THE REHABILITATION CENTER AT NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL AND SUBSEQUENTLY RELEASED HOME. 
     
     OCTOBER 8, 1996 HE WAS TAKEN TO BROWARD GENERAL HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS ADMITTED TO THE "DIMAGIO CHILDREN'S CENTER, HOWEVER ON OCTOBER 9, 1996 HE WAS RELEASED HOME.

     OCTOBER 10, 1996 THE DECEASED WAS AT HOME WHERE HE WAS BEING CARED FOR BY A HOME CARE NURSE. THE NURSE STATES SHE OBSERVED HIS HEALTH TO DETERIORATE AND SUBSEQUENTLY, HE WAS WITHOUT A PULSE. MIAMI FIRE-RESCUE WAS SUMMONED AND RESPONDED. UPON THEIR ARRIVAL, HE WAS PRONOUNCED D.O.A..
     POLICE RESPONDED AND VIEWED THE DEC'D WITH "SLASH-LIKE" CUTS UNDERNEATH HIS NECK IN WHICH FAMILY MEMBERS STATED WAS DUE TO AN INTRAVENOUS INJECTION WHICH WAS DONE WHILE AT BROWARD MEMORIAL A FEW DAYS EARLIER. NO FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED AT THIS TIME.