     ACCORDING TO THE INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION:  THE DECEASED WAS AN ELDERLY MALE WHO WAS VISITING FAMILY MEMBERS IN MIAMI. 
     ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1996, AT ABOUT 9:40 PM, HE APPARENTLY  FELL NINE STEPS STRIKING HIS HEAD.  MIAMI BEACH RESCUE UNITS RESPONDED,  FOUND HIM ON THE STAIR LANDING CONSCIOUS, NO VERBAL RESPONSE, LABORED BREATHING. THERE WAS A LACERATION TO HIS FOREHEAD, HIS PULSE WAS IRREGULAR. HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER.
     UPON ARRIVAL AT THE HOSPITAL HIS BLOOD PRESSURE WAS 153/90, HIS RESPIRATION WAS 16, . CT-SCANS WERE DONE AND REVEALED A SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE WITH BRAIN CONTUSION. HE DEVELOPED RESPIRATORY FAILURE AND SLIPPED INTO AN UNARROUSABLE COMATOSE STATE. HE WAS INTUBATED AND REMAINED COMATOSE UNTIL DECEMBER 24, 1996, WHEN HE SUFFERED A HYOPTENSIVE EPISODE BEFORE HE EXPIRED AT 11:00 AM. 
     PAST MEDICAL HISTORY OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION WITH A PACEMAKER PLACEMENT,  CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT. TREATED BY DR. JEFFERY GANSS (718) 692-1198. 