     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  ON OCTOBER 3, 1996 ABT. 1:00 P.M., THE DECEASED APPROACHED A FRIEND IN THE PARKING LOT OF HER BUILDING COMPLEX AND COMPLAINED OF DIFFICULTY BREATHING.  SHE WAS TAKEN TO SMH HOMESTEAD HOSPITAL WHERE SHE COMPLAINED OF VOMITTING BLOOD, CHEST AND BACK PAINS SINCE EARLIER THAT MORNING.   BLOOD PRESSURE: 73/29, RESPIRATIONS: 32.  I.V.'S WERE STARTED AND AN ATTEMPT TO INTUBATE WAS MADE BUT UNSUCCESSFUL BECAUSE OF DECEASED'S EXTREME AGITATION.   SHE SUDDENLY DEVELOPED BRADYCARDIA AND WAS BLEEDING PROFUSELY FROM THE MOUTH.  AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS AN ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE WAS PLACED. SHE CONTINUED TO DETERIORATE - WENT INTO ASYSTOLE RHYTHM.  MEDICATIONS WERE ADMINISTERED AND SHE WAS DEFIBRILLATED SEVERAL TIMES BUT TO NO AVAIL, SHE REMAINED UNRESPONSIVE TO TREATMENT AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 3:24 P.M..
     DECEASED HAD BEEN TREATED IN THE PAST AT C.A.C CLINIC AND HAD A HISTORY OF ALCOHOL ABUSE, TUBERCULOSIS 1994.  SHE WAS LAST SEEN IN THE URGENT CARE CENTER 9/96 WITH A FUNGAL SKIN INFECTION.  DIAGNOSIS WERE MILD ANEMIA, MILD ALCOHOLIC 
HEPATITIS.  MEDICATIONS SENT TO THIS OFFICE INCLUDED: B-COMPLEX,  MOTRIN AND FOLIC ACID.





























 