        ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  ON DECEMBER 3, 1996 DECEASED CAME HOME ABT. 6:00 P.M. AND ATE PIZZA.  HE WENT TO BED A FEW HOURS LATER AND STARTED COMPLAINING OF NAUSEAU AND HEARTBURN.  HE BECAME VERY PALE AND BEGAN SWEATING PROFUSELY.  FIRE RESCUE WAS SUMMONED AND TRANSPORTED HIM TO MT. SINAI  MEDICAL CENTER WHERE HE WAS ADMITTED WITH AN IMPRESSION OF POSTERIOR INFERIOR MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION.  HE WAS TAKEN TO THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT WHERE HE WAS TO UNDERGO A CARDIAC CATHERIZATION BUT HE SUDDENLY BECAME UNSTABLE AND WENT INTO VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION.  RESUSCITATIVE EFFORTS WERE MADE BUT TO NO AVAIL, HE REMAINED UNRESPONSIVE AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 4:20 A.M..
        DECEASED REPORTEDLY HAD A LONG HISTORY OF HEART PROBLEMS AND WAS ADVISED TO UNDERGO AN ANGIOPLASTY.