     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: THE DECEASED HAD RECENTLY RECENTLY BEEN TREATED FOR BOWEL OVSTRUCTION AT PARKWAY HOSPITAL.  ON JULY 24, 1996 SHE WAS SEEN BY A VISITING NURSE AND COMPLAINED OF ABDOMINAL PAIN.  SHE ALSO SAT ON THE FLOOR AND HAD A WATERY BOWEL MOVEMENT.  SHE THEN BECAME WEAK AND COULD NOT WALK.  
     SHE WAS TRANSPORTED TO PALMETTO GENERAL HOSPITAL IN RESPIRATORY DISTRESS.  UPON ARRIVAL SHE HAD AGONAL BREATHING WITH A SYSTOLIC B/P OF 80.  SHE WAS INTUBATED AND IV FLUIDS WERE GIVEN.  HER SYSTOLIC B/P RESPPONDED TO 100 AND SHE BECAME ALERT AND COOPERATIVE.  SHE WAS THEN ADMITTED TO ICU AT 4:30 PM WITH THE DIAGNOSIS OF RESPIRATORY FAILURE, CARDIAC ARRYHTMIAS AND G.I. BLEED. 
     AT 5:15 PM SHE SUDDENLY BECAME HYPOTENSIVE AND ASYSTOLIC, BUT DESPITE AGGRESSIVE RESUSCITATIVE EFFORTS SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 5;35 PM.
     THE DECEASED HAD BEEN UNDER THE CARE OF DR. SHAPIRO (949-7273) FOR VALVULAR HEART DISEASE, SEVERE AORTIC INSUFFICIENCY, SEVERE TRICUSPID INSUFFICIENCY WITHOUT STENOSIS, HYPERTHYROIDISM, HYPERTENSION, STABLE ANGINA AND PAGETS DISEASE.  HE PRESCIBED LASIX, SYNTHROID AND ALTACE.