     ACCORDING TO THE INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION:  THE DECEASED WAS EMPLOYED AS A CORRECTIONS OFFICER WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION, DADE COUNTY. HE LIVED AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS WITH HIS MOTHER. ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1996, AT ABOUT 3:50 AM, HE COMPLAINED TO HIS MOTHER THAT HE WAS HAVING DIFFICULTY BREATHING. SHE CALLED EMERGENCY RESCUE UNITS. UPON THEIR ARRIVAL HE WAS FOUND WITH A POSSIBLE ANXIETY ATTACK, RAPID BREATHING. RESUSCITATIVE MEASURES WERE INITIATED AS HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO NORTH SHORE MEDICAL CENTER. 
     UPON ARRIVAL AT THE HOSPITAL HIS BLOOD PRESSURE WAS 100/60, PULSE 120, RESPIRATION OF 24, AWAKE AND ALERT TIMES THREE. A SHORT WHILE AFTER ARRIVAL HE LOST CONSCIOUSNESS, CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATIVE MEASURES WERE CONTINUED BUT WERE TO NO AVAIL AND DEATH WAS PRONOUNCED. 
      ACCORDING TO THE DECEASED HE HAD BEEN DRINKING CONTINUOUSLY FOR THE PREVIOUS  FOUR WEEKS, THERE WAS A HISTORY OF HYPERTENSION AS WELL AS PEPTIC ULCER DISEASE. NO MEDICATION WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINERS DEPARTMENT. 