     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  ON DECEMBER 15, 1996 AT 1:38 AM., THE DECEASED REPORTEDLY WAS AT THE "MALAGA RESTAURANT"  LOCATED AT 740 S.W. 8TH STREET, IN MIAMI.  HE HAD BEEN DRINKING HEAVILY AND BEGAN FEELING LEG CRAMPS PRIOR TO COLLAPSING.   PERSON(S) IN THE RESTAURANT INITIATED CPR AND FIRE RESCUE WAS SUMMONED.   UPON RESCUE ARRIVAL HE WAS FOUND UNRESPONSIVE, WITH NO VITAL SIGNS, IN VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION.   CPR WAS INITIATED AND HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, WHERE HE WAS ADMITTED TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AT 1:30 AM., UNRESPONSIVE, IN ASYSTOLE, CPR IN PROGRESS.  RESUSCITATION EFFORTS PROVED FUTILE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 1:38 AM.
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     ACCORDING TO HIS SISTER, THE DECEASED HAD NO PREVIOUS MEDICAL HISTORY. HE JUST COMPLAINED OF PAIN IN THE BACK ONCE, LAST MONTH.  HE WAS A SPORTS MINDED PERSON, AN ATHLETE IN HIS YOUNGER YEARS.  HAD HISTORY OF HEPATITIS AS A TEEN. HAD HISTORY OF HEAVY DRINKING AND SMOKING.  SISTER DIDN'T KNOWN IF HE USED DRUGS BUT SAID THAT IT COULD POSSIBLY BE THE CASE.  CAME TO THE UNITED STATED THROUGH THE MARIEL BOATLIFT.  WAS SELF-EMPLOYED, WORKED IN SALES.


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