    ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  ON JULY 25. 1996 DECEASED COMPLAINED OF CHEST PAINS AND SHORTNESS OF BREATH BUT REFUSED TO SEEK HOSPITALIZATION.  THE FOLLOWING MORNING, ABT. 2:00A.M. HE WAS FOUND BY HIS WIFE UNRESPONSIVE.  FIRE RESCUE WAS SUMMONED AND TRANSPORTED HIM TO HIALEAH HOSPITAL WHERE HE ARRIVED IN THE EMERGENCY WITHOUT A PULSE OR RESPIRATION.  HIS PUPILS WERE FIXED AND DILATED  - EKG SHOWED FLAT LINE.  HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD ON ARRIVAL.
     DECEASED HAD BEEN TREATED IN MARCH 1996 AT HIALEAH HOSPITAL AND HAD A FINAL DIAGNOSIS OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE, ATRIAL FIBRILLATION, CHRONIC AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION, ANEMIA, DIABETES MELLITUS AND POST SURGICAL AORTOCORONARY BYPASS STATUS.  HE HAD A PAST MEDICAL HISTORY OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE AND ARTERIOSCLEROTIC HEART DISEASE .