     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  AND INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM THE DECEASED'S DAUGHTER VIA TELEPHONE, THE DECEASED WAS LAST SEEN ALIVE ON DECEMBER 22,1996 AT ABOUT 3:30 PM., WHEN HE COMPLAINED OF HEADACHE AND SAID HE WAS GOING TO LAY DOWN FOR A WHILE.   AT 7:00 AM., HE WAS FOUND FAMILY MEMBERS FOUND HIM UNRESPONSIVE ON BED.   FIRE RESCUE WAS SUMMONED AND UPON ARRIVAL FOUND THE DECEASED EXPIRED.
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     POLICE RESPONDED TO THE SCENE AND VIEWED THE DECEASED LYING SUPINE ON BED, WITH NO VISIBLE SIGNS OF TRAUMA.  ACCORDING TO DAUGHTER,  THE DECEASED WAS IN VERY GOOD HEALTH AND HIS MEDICAL HISTORY WAS UNREMARKABLE EXCEPT FOR A HERNIOTOMY THAT HE UNDERWENT AT  CEDARS MEDICAL CENTER, ON JUNE/1996. SHE FURTHER STATED THAT THE DECEDASED REPORTEDLY HAD SUFFERED A FALL AT A "WINN-DIXIE" FOR WHICH HE WAS TAKEN TO SOUTH MIAMI HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS FOUND TO HAVE A FRACTURED ANKLE. HAD SURGERY DONE THE NEXT DAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1996, AND ON THE SAME DATE HE WAS TAKEN FOR AN M.R.I. AND WHILE BEING TRANSFERED FROM STRETCHER TO TABLE, HE ALLEGEDLY WAS ACCIDENTALLY "DROPPED" TO THE FLOOR. AFTERWARDS SHE COMPLAINED OF SEVERE HEADACHE AND PAIN IN THE ARM. WAS RELEASED HOME ON DECEMBER 1,1996.  AT HOME HIS MOOD WAS SEEN CHANGING AND HE BECAME VERY SAD, PROGRESSIVELY DETERIORATING DURING HIS LAST WEEK OF LIFE.