     ACCORDING TO INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM HOSPITAL RECORDS AND POLICE INVESTIGATION,  ON DECEMBER 18, 1996 DECEASED HAD BEEN DRINKING VODKA AND BEER THROUGHOUT THE DAY.  WITNESS STATED THAT LATER IN THE EVENING, HE WAS OUT WORKING ON HIS CAR WHEN HE BEGAN HAVING "SPASMS" AND FELL BACKWARDS.  FIRE RESCUE WAS SUMMONED AND TRANSPORTED HIM TO FISHERMAN'S HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS TREATED AND SUBSEQUENTLY AIRLIFTED TO BAPTIST HOSPITAL.
     UPON ARRIVAL TO BAPTIST, BLOOD PRESSURE: 194/93, PULSE: 122, RESPIRATION: 12, COMATOSE AND INTUBATED.  A CT OF BRAIN REVEALED A TEMPORAL LINEAR SKULL FRACTURE, BILATERAL FRONTAL AND TEMPORAL HEMORRHAGIC CONTUSIONS, LEFT FRONTAL INTRACEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE, LEFT SUBDURAL HEMATOMA AND SHIFT FROM LEFT TO RIGHT.  HE WAS ADMITTED INTO THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT WITH AN IMPRESSION OF GRAND MAL SEIZURE, COMATOSE, SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE, TEMPORAL BIFRONTAL HEMORRHAGIC CONTUSION WITH LEFT SUBDURAL HEMATOMA WITH SHIFT OF THE LEFT TO THE RIGHT AND UNCAL HERNIATION.  HE WAS PLACED ON VENTILATORY SUPPORT AND REMAINED UNTIL HIS EXPIRATION ON DECEMBER 19, 1996.
      DECEASED HAD A HISTORY OF ALCOHOLISM AND SEIZURES.