     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, THE DECEASED REPORTEDLY WAS RELEASED FROM CEDARS MEDICAL CENTER ON JULY 18, 1996.    ON JULY 19, 1996 PM., HE BEGAN TO HAVE DIFFICULTY BREATHING AND RESCUE WAS SUMMONED.    WAS TRANSPORTED TO CEDARS MEDICAL CENTER, AND ADMITTED TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AT 10:25 PM., UNRESPONSIVE, IN ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS, WITH AGONAL BREATHING.  HE DETERIORATED, WENT INTO BRADYCARDIA - V. FIB.- ASYSTOLE. ALL RESUSCITATION EFFORTS WERE FUTILE, WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 11:10 PM.
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     HE REPORTEDLY HAD A MEDICAL HISTORY THAT INCLUDED INTESTINAL PROBLEMS AND CARDIAC DISEASE.  WAS BEING TREATED AT CAC-HMO CLINIC, POLICE WAS UNABLE TO CONTACT A PHYSICIAN WHO COULD SIGN THE DEATH CERTIFICATE.
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     ACCORDING TO WIFE AND DAUGHTERS, THE DECEASED HAD BEEN COMPLAINING OF DIARRHEA, WEAKNESS, DEHYDRATION. WAS TAKEN TO CAC-HMO CLINIC ON JULY 11, 1996 AND FROM THERE TRANSFERED TO CEDARS MEDICAL CENTER WHERE HE STAYED UNTIL JULY 18,1996 WHEN HE WAS SENT HOME. WHILE AT THE HOSPITAL HE HAD EPISODES OF COPIOUS AMOUNT OF VOMIT AND LIQUID STOOLS WITH RED BLOOD.  HAS PAST HISTORY OF A HEART ATTACK OVER TEN YEARS AGO, SEVERE SCOLIOSIS, AND EMPHYSEMA (HEAVY SMOKER).  WAS CURRENTLY ON AUGMENTIN, RYTHMOL, METRONIDAZOL, VICON FORTE.
  **  FAMILY REQUESTED AN AUTOPSY **

