     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: ON OCT. 9, 1996 THE DECEASED CALLED HIS DOCTOR, DR. HOROWITZ (538-7344) COMPLAINING OF PAIN AND WAS ADVISED TO TAKE TWO HYDROCODONE PILLS.  ABOUT 8:13 PM THE DECEASED WAS FOUND UNRESPONSIVE.  ABOUT 20 MINUTES PRIOR TO THAT HE WAS AWAKE AND ALERT.  
     FIRE RESCUE ARRIVED AND FOUND THE DECEASED IN BED UNRESPONSIVE. WITH NO PULSE AND NO RESPIRATION.  WHEN MOVED TO THE FLOOR FLUID CAME OUT OF HIS MOUTH.  HE DID NOT RESPOND TO RESUSCITATIVE EFFORTS AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD.
     THE DECEASED WAS TREATED BY DR. HOROWITZ FOR HYPERTENSON UNDER CONTROL, ENLARGED PROSTATE AND IMPOTENCY.  HE PRESCRIBED PROCARDIA XL, LOTENSIN AND TESTOSTERONE INJECTIONS.

     *THE FAMILY REQUESTED NO AUTOPSY DUE TO RELIGIOUS BELIEFS.*