    ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION AND INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM MEDICAL RECORDS,  ON SEPTEMBER 3, 1996 DECEASED WAS AT HIS RESIDENCE WHEN HE WENT INTO CARDIAC ARREST.  FIRE RESCUE WAS SUMMONED AND FOUND HIM LYING ON THE FLOOR WITH CPR IN PROGRESS.  HE WAS IN VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION AND WITHOUT ANY VITAL SIGNS.  CPR CONTINUED, MEDICATIONS WERE ADMINISTERED AND HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO CEDARS MEDICAL CENTER.
     UPON ARRIVAL, STILL WITHOUT ANY VITAL SIGNS BOTH PUPILS FIXED AND DILATED.  AN EKG SHOWED VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION TO IDIOVENTRICULAR THEN ASYSTOLE.  HE WAS DEFIBRILLATED SEVERAL TIMES AND CPR CONTINUED BUT TO NO AVAIL, HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 8:29AM..
     DECEASED HAD BEEN TREATED IN THE PAST AT JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.  HE WAS LAST HOSPITALIZED IN MAY 1996 WITH A DISCHARGE DIAGNOSIS OF DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY, PNEUMOCCAL PNEUMONIA AND LIVER CIRRHOSIS.  HE HAD A PAST MEDICAL HISTORY OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE, INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS, CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT AND CHRONIC RENAL INSUFFICIENCY.