     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, AND INFORMATION OBTAINED VIA TELEPHONE FROM THE DECEASED'S WIFE,  ON JULY 24,1996 A.M., THE DECEASED WAS STILL ON BED AND HIS WIFE WAS TRYING TO AWAKEN HIM, WHEN HE SUDDENLY TOOK A DEEP BREATH, GASPED FOR AIR, BECAME STIFF AND THEN COLLAPSED.  FIRE RESCUE WAS SUMMONED AND UPON RESPONDING INITIATED CPR AND TRANSPORTED THE DECEASED TO COLUMBIA KENDALL MEDICAL CENTER, WHERE HE WAS ADMITTED TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AT 9:05 AM., UNRESPONSIVE, WITH NO VITAL SIGNS, CPR IN PROGRESS.  ALL EFFORTS TO RESUSCITATE HIM FAILED, WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 9:17 AM.
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     THE DECEASED REPORTEDLY HAD HISTORY OF CARDIAC DISEASE; HE HAD UNDERGONE HEART SURGERY ON JULY/1995, AT JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.  WAS RECENTLY SEEN THERE DUE TO LOWER RIGHT ABDOMINAL PAIN.  MEDICATIONS SENT TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINER CONSISTED:  VASOTEC, ADALAT, ASCRIPTIN, ATENOLOL, LANOXIN.
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     JMH PATIENT # 242-32-80.  LAST ADMITTED ON OCTOBER 21, 1994 TO NOVEMBER 4, 1994.  DISCHARGE DIAGNOSIS:  HYPERTENSION.  CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE. UNSTABLE ANGINA. HISTORY OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND PULMONARY EDEMA IN JULY/94.  PROCEDURE: TRIPLE VESSER CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE. CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT.