    ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, ON OCTOBER 13, 1996, THE DECEASED WAS AT HOME SITTING ON THE COUCH WHEN HE BEGAN GASPING FOR BREATH AND STATED TO HIS FRIEND THAT HE WAS HAVING A HEART ATTACK.  HIS FRIEND CALLED FOR EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE (911).  FIRE RESCUE RESPONDED AND UPON ARRIVAL, FOUND HIM UNRESPONSIVE WITH EKG MONITOR SHOWING V-FIB.  EMERGENCY MEDICAL TREATMENT WAS ADMINISTERED AND HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO MERCY HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM.
    UPON ARRIVAL AT THE EMERGENCY ROOM, HE REMAINED UNRESPONSIVE, WITHOUT VITAL SIGNS AND EKG MONITOR SHOWING ASYSTOLE.  ADVANCE CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT WAS ADMINISTERED, HOWEVER, WITHOUT SUCCESS AND AT 11:34P.M., HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD.
    ACCORDING TO HIS FRIEND, HE HAS A HISTORY OF HEART ATTACKS.  HIS MOST RECENT ATTACK WAS ABT. 2 YEARS AGO WHILE HE WAS IN ITALY.  HIS FRIEND ALSO STATED THAT HE WAS SEEN ONCE AT JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOR HEART RELATED PROBLEMS.  HE WAS NOT TREATED BY A PERSONAL PHYSCIAN. 
