     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  THE DECEASED REPORTEDLY HAD BEEN COMPLAINING OF BACK PAIN AND HAD BEEN LAYING DOWN DURING THE DAY.  AFTER DINNER, HE WENT TO THE BATHROOM, COUGHING.   WIFE RESPONDED TO CHECK ON HIM AND FOUND THE DECEASED COUGHING PROFUSELY LARGE AMOUNTS OF BLOOD..  FIRE RESCUE WAS SUMMONED AND UPON RESPONDING TRANSPORTED THE DECEASED TO BAPTIST HOSPITAL, WHERE HE WAS ADMITTED TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AT 11:50 AM., WITH NO VITAL SIGNS, CPR IN PROGRESS.  RESUSCITATION CONTINUED UNTIL 12:06 AM., AUGUST 13,1996, WHEN THE DECEASED WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD.
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     POLICE RESPONDED TO THE HOSPITAL AND VIEWED THE DECEASED WITH NO VISIBLE SIGNS OF TRAUMA. HIS PRIVATE PHYSICIAN WAS CONTACTED AND ADVISED THAT THE DECEASED WAS SUFFERING WITH HYPERTENSION AND EMPHYSEMA AND THAT HE WAS WILLING TO SIGN THE DEATH CERTIFICATE, HOWEVER,  HIS WIFE ADVISED THAT SHE WANTED TO REQUEST AN AUTOPSY TO KNOW THE EXACT CAUSE OF HIS DEATH.  MEDICATIONS SENT TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINER DEPARTMENT CONSISTED OF: ZYLOPRIM, THEO-DUR, COLCHICINE, ATENOLOL, TRIAM.