     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, ON DECEMBER 8, 1996, ABT. 6:00P.M., THE DECEASED COMPLAINED OF BACK PAINS.  THE PAINS CONTINUED THROUGH THE NIGHT AND HE CALLED HIS DOCTOR WHO PRESCRIBED HIM TYLENOL WITH CODINE.  HE PICKED UP THE MEDICATION, HOWEVER, IT DID NOT HELP HIM.  LATER THAT EVENING, HE STARTED VOMITING AND GASPING FOR AIR.  HE COLLAPSED AND FIRE RESCUE WAS CALLED.  FIRE RESCUE RESPONDED AND UPON ARRIVAL, FOUND HIM UNRESPONSIVE, AND IN RESPIRATORY ARREST.  EMERGENCY MEDICAL TREATMENT WAS ADMINISTERED AND HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO PAN AMERICAN HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM.  
    UPON ARRIVAL AT THE EMERGENCY ROOM, HE REMAINED UNRESPONSIVE, WAS WITHOUT VITAL SIGNS, AND IN CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST WITH EKG MONITOR SHOWING SINUS RHYTHM.  ADVANCE CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT WAS ADMINISTERED, HOWEVER, WITHOUT SUCCESS AND AT 2:25A.M., HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD.
    HE HAD BEEN TREATED BY DR. RAMIREZ WHO STATED THAT HE HAS A HISTORY OF ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM OF THE DISTAL WALL , HYPERTENSION AND PROSTRATE CANCER.