     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, AND INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM DECEASED'S RELATIVES, THE DECEASED REPORTEDLY HAD NOT HAD A BOWEL MOVEMENT OR URINATED FOR ABOUT FOUR DAYS AND HAD BEEN COMPLAINING OF ABDOMINAL PAINS, WAS DROWSY AND VERY THIRSTY.  ON OCTOBER 25,1996 AM., HE WAS TAKEN BY FAMILY MEMBERS TO PARKWAY WEST REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER. HE NEEDED ASSISTANCE TO GET OUT OF THE CAR.  WAS IN ACUTE DISTRESS, RESTLESS, COMPLAINING OF ABDOMINAL PAIN.  WAS ADMITTED TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AT 1:25 AM., AND AFTER INITIAL EXAMINATION AND TESTING HE WAS GIVEN A DIAGNOSIS OF: DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS, NEW ONSET (BLOOD SUGAR 1900.  RENAL INSUFFICIENCY.  FEVER, RULE OUT SEPSIS.  ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE.  SHORTLY AFTERWARDS, THE DECEASED BECAME APNEIC AND LOST HIS PULSE.  WAS INTUBATED, CVP LINE INSERTED AND USUAL RESUSCITATION PROTOCOL WAS STARTED WITH RESTORATION OF PULSE. HE LATER WENT INTO FULL CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST. RESUSCITATION EFFORTS CONTINUED UNTIL 6:50 PM., WHEN HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD.
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     AS PER FAMILY, THE DECEASED HAD HISTORY OF ASTHMA, BUT WAS NEVER TREATED BY A DOCTOR, HOWEVER, HE REPORTEDLY WAS HOSPITALIZED AT PARKWAY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ON JUNE/1996 FOR ASTHMA RELATED PROBLEMS.