     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, THE DECEASED REPORTEDLY  WAS IN GOOD HEALTH UNTIL ONE WEEK PRIOR TO ADMISSION TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM OF COLUMBIA DEERING HOSPITAL, ON DECEMBER 26,1996 AT 11:40 PM., COMPLAINING OF UPPER ABDOMINAL PAIN WITH NAUSEA AND MULTIPLE EPISODES OF VOMITING.  HE DENIED ETOH CONSUMPTION OR TRAUMA. NO HISTORY OF GALL BLADDER DISEASE, HAD NO FEVER AND NO JAUNDICE. WAS ADMITTED TO THE HOSPITAL WITH AN IMPRESSION OF SEVERE PANCREATITIS AND NEW ONSET OF DIABETES, SECONDARY TO THE PANCREATITIS.  HE UNDERWENT SEVERAL TESTS AND ON DECEMBER 28, 1 11:35 P.M., HE WAS FOUND UNRESPONSIVE IN HIS ROOM.  CODE BLUE WAS CALLED AND RESUSCITATION EFFORTS WERE INITIATED, HOWEVER, WITHOUT SUCCESSFUL RESULTS. WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 11:58 PM.
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     POLICE RESPONDED TO THE HOSPITAL AND VIEWED THE DECEASED SUPINE ON BED, WITH NO VISIBLE SIGNS OF TRAUMA. THERE WAS NO KNOWN MEDICAL HISTORY.