     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: JULY 12, 1996 AT 10:49 P.M. THE DECEASED WAS A  **PASSENGER**  IN A 1985 FORD THAT WAS TRAVELING EASTBOUND ON NORTHWEST 25TH STREET. AT THE INTERSECTION OF 25TH STREET, THE FORD COLLIDED WITH A MARKED "CITY OF MIAMI POLICE CRUISER", SPUN AROUND AND STRUCK A THIRD PARKED VEHICLE.  FIRE-RESCUE RESPONDED AND TRANSPORTED THE DECEASED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
     UPON HIS ARRIVAL INTO THE EMERGENCY ROOM, HE WAS ADMITTED WITH MULTIPLE INTRACRANIAL BLEEDS, LEFT TEMPORAL HEMORRHAGE. ADMITTING CT SCAN REVEALED MULTIPLE BLEEDS AND MIDLINE SHIFT.  NEUROSURGEONS DETERMINED DEC'D CONDITION TO BE NON-OPERATIVE. HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT FOR OBSERVATION, HOWEVER HIS CONDITION RAPIDLY DETERIORATED AND HE WAS PRONOUNCED ON JULY 14, 1996.

     THE POLICE OFFICER DRIVING THE CRUISER REMAINS AT JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN SERIOUS CONDITION AS WELL AS ANOTHER PASSENGER TRAVELING IN THE DEC'D VEHICLE.