     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: THE DECEASED RESIDED AT THE LANDMARK CENTER AT 20000 NW 47TH AVENUE.  ON MAY 20, 1996 HE WAS WALKING SOUTH ON A PRIVATE ROAD WITHIN THE LANDMARK CENTER COMPOUND.  A 1987 CHEVY TRUCK WAS ALSO TRAVELING SOUTH ON THE ROADWAY  WHEN FOR UNKNOWN REASONS THE DECEASED STEPPED IN FRONT OF THE TRUCK AS IT PASSED HIM.
     HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.  HE ARRIVED IN THE E/R WITH LABORED ASSISTED BREATHING, HYPOTENSIVE AND PARTIALLY OBSTRUCTED AIRWAY.  HE HAD BEEN ORALLY INTUBATED.  CENTRAL LINES, BILATERAL TUBES AND PACKED RED BLOOD CELLS WERE INITIATED.   HE WAS ASSESED WITH RIGHT HEAD LACERATION, CLOSED HEAD INJURY WITH SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; RIGHT EAR AVULSION; HEMO/PNEUMOS, CREPTUS, BILATERAL THORAX; ABDOMEN ABRASION, PELVIS OPEN BOOK FRACTURE, ECCHYMOSIS; RIB FRACTURES; OPEN ELBOW, LEFT UPPER EXTREMITY LACERATIONS; CLAVICAL FRACTURE, RIGHT UPPER EXTREMITIES ABRASIONS; BILATERAL TIB/FIB ABRASIONS.  HE WAS VENTILATED AND ADMITTED TO TRAUMA UNIT.    
     ON MAY 21, 1996 HE UNDERWENT WOUND CLOSURE AND DRESSING DUE TO COMPLEX LACERATION OF THE RIGHT POSTAURICULAR AND AURICULAR TISSUE.  ON MAY 31, 1996 A FEEDING TUBE WAS INSERTED.  ON JUNE 1, 1996 HE UNDERWENT A TRACHEOSTOMY AND PERCUTANEOUS GASTROSTOMY DUE TO HIS HEAD INJURY WITH LONG INTUBATION.  ON JUNE 9, 1996 HE UNDERWENT RIGHT THORACTOMY AND PLEURAL DECORTICATION.  ON JUNE 18, 1996 AN ABDOMINAL SONOGRAM REVEALED GALLBLADDER WALL THICKENING WITH SLUDGE, A SIMPLE CYST IN THE UPPER POLE OF THE LEFT KIDNEY AND A COMPLEX CYST IN THE LOWER LOBE OF THE LEFT KIDNEY, BUT THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF BILIARY DILATION.  THE DECEASED WAS ALERT AND RESPONSIVE TO VERBAL COMMANDS, WOULD NOD HEAD AND MOVE UPPER EXTREMITIES.  CHEST X-RAY OF JULY 2, 1996 SHOWED PERSISTENT PARENCHYMAL INFILTRATES.  ON JULY 27, 1996 THE DECEASED CODED, WAS SUCTIONED AND UNDERWENT RESUSCITATION PROTOCOL AND HIS PULSE WAS REGAINED.  HOWEVER HIS MENTAL STATUS HAD DETERIORATED.  HIS FAMILY WAS NOTIFIED AND THEY DECIDED TO MAKE HIM A DO NOT RESUSCITATE PATIENT.  ALL SUPPORT SYSTEMS WERE DISCONTINUED AND ON JULY 28, 1996 AT 3:10 AM HE BECAME PULSELESS WITH NO BLOOD PRESSURE AND NO BREATH SOUNDS AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD. 
     THE DECEASED HAD HISTORY OF BEHAVIOR DISORDER, LANGUAGE DISORDER, NEUROMOTION DISORDER-MILD HYPERTONIC, HYPERTENSION, ENDOCARDITIS, MENTAL RETARDATION, KYPHOSIS AND NON-SPECIFIC CHEST PAIN.