     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, ON DECEMBER 25, 1996 THE DECEASED WAS WITH HER FATHER VISITING RELATIVES. SOME TIME DURING THE DAY,  SHE BEGAN HAVING SOME CONGESTION / WHEEZING AND VOMITED LATER IN THE EVENING. SHE ARRIVED HOME ABT. 10:00 P.M. AND WAS GIVEN AN ASTHMA TREATMENT AND THEN PUT IN THE PLAYPEN TO SLEEP.  DURING THE NIGHT, SHE AWAKEN AND WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE PLAYPEN AND PLACED ON THE BLANKET WITH HER MOTHER AND FATHER WHO HAD BEEN LYING ON THE FLOOR.   THE FOLLOWING MORNING, HER MOTHER WOKE-UP AND FOUND THE DECEASED LYING FACE UP AND WAS NOT BREATHING.  DECEASED'S FATHER BEGAN CPR AND FIRE RESCUE WAS SUMMONED,  HOWEVER,  THE PARENTS TRANSPORTED HER TO NORTHSHORE HOSPITAL VIA VEHICLE.
     UPON ARRIVAL, SHE WAS APNEIC AND PULSELESS.  CHEST MONITOR SHOWED ASYSTOLE RHYTHM.  CPR WAS INITIATED AND CONTINUED BUT TO NO AVAIL, SHE REMAINED UNRESPONSIVE AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 9:44 A.M..
      DECEASED HAD A HISTORY OF DOWN'S SYNDROME AND ASTHMA. SHE HAD BEEN TREATED IN THE PAST AT PARKWAY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER - MEDICAL RECORDS REQUESTED. 