    ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION AND INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM THE WIFE OF THE DECEASED, ON NOVEMBER 27, 1996, THE DECEASED WAS AT HOME WHEN HE COMPLAINED OF NOT FEELING WELL.  HIS WIFE ASKED HIM IF HE WANTED HER TO CONTACT HIS PHYSCIAN, HOWEVER, HE TOLD HER THAT HE WOULD BE O.K.  LATER THAT EVENING, HE WENT TO BED, BUT GOT UP AND TOOK A NITRO TABLET.  HE WENT BACK TO BED THEN LATER GOT UP AND WENT TO THE BATHROOM.  HE GOT BACK IN THE BED AND SHE LATER HEARD HIM MAKING NOISES.  SHE GOT UP TO CHECK ON HIM AND OBSERVED FOAM EMITTING FROM HIS MOUTH.  SHE THEN CALLED FIRE RESCUE.  FIRE RESCUE RESPONDED AND UPON ARRIVAL, FOUND HIM UNRESPONSIVE AND IN CARDIAC ARREST WITH EKG MONITOR SHOWING VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION.  EMERGENCY MEDICAL TREATMENT WAS ADMINISTERED AND HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO PARKWAY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER. 
    UPON ARRIVAL AT THE EMERGENCY ROOM, HE REMAINED UNRESPONSIVE, WITHOUT VITAL SIGNS AND IN FULL CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST WITH EKG MONITOR REMAINING IN VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION.  ADVANCE CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT WAS ADMINISTERED, HOWEVER, WITHOUT SUCCESS AND AT 12:42A.M., ON NOVEMBER 28, 1996, HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD.
    ACCORDING TO HIS WIFE, IN AUGUST OF 1996, HE SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK AND WAS TREATED AT PARKWAY REGIONAL.  HE WAS ALSO TREATED BY DR. HOROWITZ (932-4420).  ACCORDING TO INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM DR. HOROWITZ'S OFFICE STAFF, HE WAS AWARE OF THE DECEASED SUFFERING A HEART ATTACK, BUT ADVISED THE HOSPITAL STAFF THAT HE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO CERTIFY THE DEATH BEFORE TUESDAY,  DECEMBER 2, 1996, WHICH WOULD BE WHEN HE WOULD BE AFFORDED THE OPPORTUNITY TO VIEW HIS MEDICAL CHART.   MEDICATIONS THAT HE WAS TAKEN WAS COUMADIN AND LANOXIN.
    ACCORDING TO PARKWAY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL RECORDS, HE WAS A PATIENT THERE FROM AUGUST 17, 1996 TO AUGUST 22, 1996.  ADMITTING DIAGNOSIS:  ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION.  FINAL DIAGNOSIS:  ANTERIOR ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, ATRIAL FIBRILLATION, CHRONIC ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE AND HYPERTENSION.  HE HAS A HISTORY OF HYPERTENSION, ARTERIOSCLEROTIC HEART DISEASE, CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE, AND DIABETES MELLITUS.