   ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, ON NOVEMBER 12, 1996, THE DECEASED WAS TAKEN TO PARKWAY WEST REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER BY FIRE RESCUE C/O CHEST PAINS WHICH RADIATED TO HIS LEFT SIDE AND WERE ASSOCIATED WITH SHORTNESS OF BREATH AND MILD DIAPHERESIS.  TREATMENT WAS ADMINISTERED, CHEST X-RAYS REVEALED MILD CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE, CARDIOMEGALLY.   WHILE BEING TREATED, HE REFUSED MEDICATION AND ON NOVEMBER 13, 1996, HE MADE AN ATTEMPT TO HANG HIMSELF WITH A TELEPHONE CORD.  HE WAS PLACED IN THE PSYCHATRIC WARD AND ON NOVEMBER 14, 1996, HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO PARKWAY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOR FURTHER TREATMENT. 
    UPON ARRIVAL AT PARKWAY REGIONAL, TREATMENT WAS ADMINISTERED.  HOWEVER, HIS CONDITION CONTINUED TO DETERIORATE AND ON NOVEMBER 15, 1996, AT 4:20A.M., HE EXPIRED.
     