     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, AND INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL MEDICAL CHART (PATIENT # 200-47-21), ON AUGUST 12, 1996 FIRE RESCUE AND POLICE WERE CALLED TO RESPOND TO N.W.22ND AVENUE AND 34TH STREET.  THE DECEASED WAS FOUND LAYING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROADWAY WITH BOTH ARMS OUTSTRETCHED HOLDING A KNIFE IN ONE, AND YELLING TO RUN HIM OVER, STAB HIM OR STEP ON HIM.  HE INDICATED THAT HE WAS ON FIRE AND UTTERED SOMETHING ABOUT THE DEVIL. HE REFUSED POLICE ASSISTANCE, BROKE AWAY AND STARTED RUNNING IN A ZIG-ZAG PATTERN ACROSS FOUR LANES OF MODERATE TRAFFIC.  SEVERAL BYSTANDERS ADVISED HE WAS INVOLVED IN SOME TYPE OF "SANTERIA": RITUAL.   WAS HANDCUFFED, LEG IRONS-FOUR POINT RESTRAINTS APPLIED AND TRANSPORTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL UNDER THE BAKER ACT.
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     WAS ADMITTED TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM ON AUGUST 13,1996 AT 1:00 AM., AWAKE BUT NOT RESPONSIVE TO VERBAL STIMULI, PUPILS 3MM EQUAL AND REACTIVE TO LIGHT,  VERY DIAPHORETIC, TACHYPNEIC. HAD AN APPARENT PUNCTURE WOUND TO RIGHT ARM AND A PUNCTURE WOUND ON RIGHT LEG, WITH SWOLLEN ANKLE. THE FOLLOWING PROBLEMS WERE IDENTIFIED: SEVERE METABOLIC ACIDOSIS. LOW HEMOGLOBIN AND HEMATOCRIT COUNT.  SCHIZOPHRENIA. SINUS TACHYCARDIA.  DURING THE REST OF HIS COURSE AT THE HOSPITAL, HIS CONDITION DETERIORATED,  HAD SHALLOW RESPIRATION, BECAME HYPOTENSIVE AND EVENTUALLY EXPIRED.  WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 11:28 AM.
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     DECEASED SUFFERED FROM CHRONIC PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA, UNDIFERENTIATED TYPE, ACCORDING TO A NOTE FROM "NEW HORIZONS" COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALT CLINIC DATED JANUARY/95. WAS HOSPITALIZED ONCE AT JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN 1988 FOLLOWING AN ACCIDENT AT WORK WHEN HE INJURED HIS RIGHT HAND DORSAL AREA AVOVE THE ELBOW. SEEN IN 1991 AT DERMATOLOGY CLINIC FOR KERATOSIS PILARIS.