     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: ON OCT. 11, 1996 ABOUT 3:30 PM THE DECEASED WAS AT A RESIDENCE IN COCONUT GROVE WHEN SHE SUDDENLY BEGAN TO SEIZE AND FIRE RESCUE TRANSPORTED HER TO MERCY HOSPITAL.  UPON ADMISSION SHE WAS POSITIVE FOR COCAINE AND ETHANOL USE.  HER INITIAL RHYTHM WAS ASYSTOLE, BUT SHE WAS SUCCESSFULLY RESUSCITATED AT 4:48 PM, BUT WAS COMATOSE.  HER CONDITION WAS DEEMED CRITICAL.  SHE HAD TEMPERATURES VARYING FROM 109. 5 TO 103.6.  SHE REMAINED COMATOSE, POSSIBLY DUE TO ANOXIC ENCEPHALOPATHY.  DURING THE NIGHT HER BLOOD PRESSURE BEGAN TO DROP.  ON OCT. 12, 1996 ABOUT 5:00 AM SHE LOST BLOOD PRESSURE AND CPR WAS INITIATED, BUT TO NO AVAIL AND SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 5:31 AM.      
     ACCORDING TO HER MOTHER, THE DECEASED WAS TREATED FOR BULIMIA FOUR OR FIVE YEARS AGO AND HOSPITALIZED AT HOLLYWOOD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.  SHE WAS ALSO TREATED BY DR. KOLITZ (663-9393) AND DR. ERLICHMAN (248-1143) FOR HER EATING DISORDER.  SHE SMOKED AND DRANK HEAVILY.  HER MOTHER SUSPECTED DRUG USE, BUT EVERYTIME SHE WAS TESTED SHE WAS NEGATIVE.  HER LAST PHYSICAL WAS ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO BY A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY, DR. ROBERT HARRIS (667-3948) AND EVERYTHING WAS NORMAL.  THE MOTHER ADVISED SHE HAD SPOKEN WITH THE DECEDENT'S ROOMMATE AND WAS TOLD SHE WAS STILL SUFFERING WITH BULIMIA, BUT SHE STOPPED TREATMENT AND THERAPY.  HER MOTHER STRONGLY STRESSED THAT HER DAUGHTER WAS NOT SUICIDAL FOR SHE HAD RECENTLY STARTED COMMUNICATION BY COMPUTER WITH HER MOTHER AND SISTER AND HER MENTAL STATUS WAS VERY UP-BEAT.  
     