     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: THE DECEASED WAS A PATIENT AT THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION MEDICAL CENTER UNDER THE CARE OF THE "HOME BOUND HEALTH CARE" PROGRAM. HE WAS BEING TREATED FOR MULTIPLE MEDICAL PROBLEMS WHICH INCLUDED: CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE, S/P PACEMAKER PLACEMENT, HYPERTENSION, HIATAL HERNIA, BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERTROPHY, DEPRESSION, URINARY TRACT INFECTION, MALNUTRITION, SHOCKED LIVER, DIVERTICULOSIS, SICK SINUS SYNDROME, PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE AND BILE ANGINA.
     DEC'D HAD MULTIPLE ADMISSIONS AT THE V.A. MEDICAL CENTER, THE LAST ONE BEING JULY 15, 1996 THRU JULY 19, 1996 FOR LOWER EXTREMITY ANEURYSM, CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE AND HYPERTENSION.

     AUGUST 14, 1996 THE DEC'D WENT INTO CARDIAC ARREST WHILE AT HIS HOME. MIAMI FIRE-RESCUE WAS SUMMOONED AND RESPONDED. HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL WHERE HE ARRIVED INTO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AT 10:45 P.M. STILL IN FULL ARREST AND WITHOUT ANY VITAL SIGNS. HE WAS INTUBATED AND WITH C.P.R. IN PROGRESS, HOWEVER ALL EFFORTS WERE WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS AND HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 11:03 P.M..