     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, AND INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM THE DECEASED'S LIVE IN GIRLFRIEND OF SIXTEEN YEARS, AND INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL MEDICAL CHART (PATIENT # 247-33-28), ON NOVEMBER 8, 1996 P.M., THE DECEASED AND HIS FAMILY WERE FISHING IN VIRGINIA KEY, WHEN THE DECEASED SUDDENLY COLLAPSED.  ANOTHER FISHERMAN CALLED RESCUE AND UPON THEIR ARRIVAL FOUND THE DECEASED EXPIRED.  DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE INCIDENT OCCURRED IN AN ISOLATED AREA OF THE KEY, THE DECEASED WAS TRANSPORTED VIA MIAMI MARINE PATROL TO THE DOCK AT MERCY HOSPITAL.  
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     HOMICIDE INVESTIGATORS RESPONDED AND OBSERVED THE DECEASED WITH NO VISIBLE SIGNS OF TRAUMA.  AS PER FAMILY, THE DECEASED HAD HISTORY OF CARDIAC DISEASE AND WAS ON A WAITING LIST FOR HEART TRANSPLANT.  POLICE ATTEMPTED TO CONTACT HIS PHYSICIAN BUT WERE ADVISED THAT HE WAS OUT OF TOWN UNTIL NEXT MONDAY.   
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     HIS GIRLFRIEND STATED THAT THE DECEASED WAS LAST HOSPITALIZED AT MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER AND WAS RELEASED ON AUGUST29,1996.  HE HAD HISTORY OF CARDIOMYOPATHY AND RECENTLY HAD EDEMA OF LOWER EXTREMITIES AND HAD COMPLAINED OF DIFFICULTY BREATHING.  HE HAD ALSO BEEN AT JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN THE PAST.   WAS LAST AN INPATIENT AT JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ON NOVEMBER 24,1995 TO NOVEMBER 27,1995. DISCHARGE DIAGNOSIS:   DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY, S/P CARDIAC CATHERIZATION, ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION, CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE, CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE, CHRONIC ATRIAL FIBRILLATION. WAS ON DIGOXIN, LASIX, COUMADIC, VASOTEC, AND POTASSIUM.
 
 