    ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, THE FAMILY OF THE DECEASED STATED THAT THE DECEASED WAS DIAGNOSED WITH HIV(+) ABT. 15 MONTHS AGO.  SINCE HER DIAGNOSIS, HER HEALTH HAS BEEN DETERIORATING.  ON DECEMBER 11, 1996, SHE DEVELOPED DIFFICULTY BREATHING AND WAS TRANSPORTED TO NORTHSHORE MEDICAL CENTER EMERGENCY ROOM.
    UPON ARRIVAL AT THE EMERGENCY, SHE WAS LETHARGIC, BUT RESPONSIVE.  SHE WAS ADMITTED, HER CONDITION CONTINUED TO DETERIORATE AND AT 11:55P.M., SHE EXPIRED.  
    SHE WAS TREATED AT JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL LAST ADMISSION WAS IN APRIL OF 1996.  DIAGNOSIS: S/P COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA, PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY VERSUS HIV, SEIZURE DISORDER SECONDARY TO HIV, ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME, S/P MUCOSAL CANDIDIASIS, HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS INFECTION OF THE PERINEAL AREA. MEDICATIONS TRANSPORTED WERE RETROVIR 100MG, MYCOBUTIN 150MG, CARABAMAZEPINE 200MG,  ACETOMINOPHEN 325MG, ZOVIRAX 400MG, DIFLUCAN 100MG.
