     ACCORDING TO THE INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION:  THE DECEASED WAS A MIDDLE AGED MALE WHO LIVED AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS WITH FAMILY MEMBERS. ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1996, HE WAS REPORTEDLY WORKING IN HIS YARD WHEN HIS ASTHMA BEGAN TO ACT UP. HE ATTEMPTED TO REACH HIS AERSOL INHALER IN THE HOUSE AND COLLAPSED IN THE PROCESS. EMERGENCY MEDICAL UNITS WERE SUMMONED AND RESPONDED. HE WAS FOUND UNRESPONSIVE AND RESUSCITATIVE EFFORTS INITIATED AS HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO MERCY HOSPITAL. 
     UPON ARRIVAL AT THE HOSPITAL HE WAS ON THE THUMPER, THERE WERE NO SPONTANEOUS RESPONSES, NO VITAL SIGNS. THERE WAS NO RESPONSE TO RESUSCITATIVE EFFORTS AND DEATH WAS PRONOUNCED AT 11:58 PM. 