    ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION AND HOSPITAL RECORDS,  DECEASED WAS A RESIDENT OF SOUTH POINT MANOR NURSING HOME AND HAD A HISTORY OF ATHEROSCLEROTIC PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE, STATUS POST RIGHT ABOVE THE KNEE AMPUTATION, HYPERTENSION, ANGINA, SICK SINUS SYNDROME-STATUS POST PACEMAKER, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE AND CHOLECYSTITIS.   HE WAS ADMITTED TO MIAMI HEART INSTITUTE ON JULY 18, 1996 WHERE HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH LEFT LOWER LOBE PNEUMONIA AND DISCHARGED BACK TO THE NURSING HOME.
    ON AUGUST 6, 1996 HE WAS LAST SEEN ALIVE ABT. 2:00 A.M. BY NURSING HOME PERSONNEL AND APPEARED TO BE RESTING COMFORTABLY AT THAT TIME.  A FEW HOURS LATER, HE WAS FOUND UNRESPONSIVE AND WITHOUT ANY VITAL SIGNS.  CPR WAS INITATED AND FIRE RESCUE WAS SUMMONED.  DESPITE RESUSCITATIVE EFFORTS MADE, HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 5:00A.M.
    HE WAS BEING TREATED BY DR. KIRPALANI WHO REFUSED TO SIGN THE DEATH CERTIFICATE.