     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  ON AUGUST 10, 1996 A.M., THE DECEASED REPORTEDLY EXPERIENCED DIFFICULTY BREATHING, AT HOME.    FIRE RESCUE WAS SUMMONED AND UPON ARRIVAL FOUND THE DECEASED IN RESPIRATORY DISTRES, HYPOTENSIVE, IN SINUS TACHYCARDIA.  SHORTLY AFTER TREATMENT BEGAN HE DETERIORATED, WENT INTO IDIOVENTRICULAR RHYTHM, THEN INTO VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION.   CPR WAS INITIATED AND DEFIBRILLATION ATTEMPTED, WAS TRANSPORTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, WHERE HE WAS ADMITTED TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AT 5:05 AM., UNRESPONSIVE, WITH NO VITAL SIGNS, IN ASYSTOLE.  CPR CONTINUED UNTIL 5:16 AM., WHEN HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD. 
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     POLICE RESPONDED TO THE HOSPITAL AND VIEWED THE DECEASED WITH NO VISIBLE SIGNS OF TRAUMA.  AS PER DECEASED'S WIFE,  HIS PAST MEDICAL HISTORY CONSISTED OF HYPERTENSION AND HEART CONDITION. HE HAD SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK IN THE PAST FOR WHICH HE WAS ADMITTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
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     JMH PATIENT # 209-76-02.   LAST ADMITTED ON JUNE 4,1996 TO JUNE 10,1996.  FINAL DIAGNOSIS:  STATUS POST ROTOR BLADE AND STENT PLACEMENT OF LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING LESION IN THE CORONARY VESSELS.  CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE.  IRON-DEFICIENCY ANEMIA, ETIOLOGY UNKNOWN. HEMATURIA. HYPERTENSION. PEPTIC ULCER DISEASE.