    ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  ON NOVEMBER 17, 1996, ABT. 11:00A.M., THE DECEASED WAS BEING ASSISTED FROM HIS BED INTO A WHEELCHAIR WHEN HE SUDDENLY BECAME UNRESPONSIVE.  FIRE RESCUE WAS CALLED AND UPON ARRIVAL, FOUND HIM UNRESPONSIVE, WITHOUT VITAL SIGNS AND EKG MONITOR SHOWING VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION.  EMERGENCY MEDICAL TREATMENT WAS ADMINISTERED AND HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO PALM SPRINGS MEDICAL CENTER.
    UPON ARRIVAL AT THE EMERGENCY ROOM, HE REMAINED UNRESPONSIVE, WITHOUT VITAL SIGNS AND IN FULL CARDIAC.  ADVANCE CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT WAS ADMINISTERED, HOWEVER, WITHOUT SUCCESS AND AT 12:59P.M., HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD
    HE HAD BEEN TREATED BY DR. PEDRO CAPOTE (823-3400) WHO STATED THAT HE HAS A HISTORY OF POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE WITH HYPERTENSION AND RENAL FAILURE SECONDARY TO POLYCYCTIC KIDNEYS, CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE AND SUFFERED FROM DEPRESSION, BUT WAS NOT SUICIDAL.  HE FEELS THAT HIS CAUSE OF DEATH WAS A RESULT OF HIM SUFFERING A MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION.