     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, ON OCTOBER 3, 1996 AT 6:13 AM.,   THE DECEASED WAS => PEDESTRIAN <= CROSSING NORMANDY DRIVE AT RUE VERSAILLES FROM THE NORTHEAST TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY A 1997 PONTIAC THAT WAS TRAVELING WEST ON NORMANDY DRIVE. THE DECEASED WAS THROWN ONTO THE HOOD AND OFF THE REAR THEN FELL TO THE GROUND.  FIRE RESCUE RESPONDED AND TRANSPORTED THE DECEASED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, ADMITTED TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AT 6:53 AM., HYPOTENSIVE, IN GCS=8-9, WITH MULTIPLE INJURIES.  CT SCAN OF BRAIN SHOWED BILATERAL INTRAVENTRICULAR HEMORRHAGE, CORPUS CALLOLSUM BLEED, BIFRONTAL HYGROMAS (CHRONIC) AND POSSIBLE SUBDURAL HEMATOMA OF THE TENTORIUM.  X-RAYS SHOWED A LEFT TIBIA/FIBULA FRACTURE.  HE BECAME BRADYCARDIC AND WAS INTUBATED AND PLACED ON VENTILATORY SUPPORT.  ON OCTOBER 23,1996 HE UNDERWENT A LEFT TEMPORAL CRANIOTOMY WITH EVACUATION OF SUBDURAL HEMATOMA. FOR THE REST OF HIS HOSPITAL COURSE, HIS CONDITION DETERIORATED WITH COMPLICATIONS OF MULTISYSTEM ORGAN FAILURE AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD ON OCTOBER 25,1996, AT 2:50 PM.
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     **   FAMILY REQUESTED NO AUTOPSY DUE TO RELIGIOUS BELIEFS  **