     ACCORDING TO THE INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION:  THE DECEASED WAS A MALE WHO LIVED AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS WITH OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS. ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1996, HE WAS AT HOME ATTEMPTING SIT DOWN WHEN HE FELL BACKWARD TO THE FLOOR AND LOST CONSCIOUSNESS. HIS WIFE CALLED EMERGENCY RESCUE UNITS. UPON THEIR ARRIVAL HE WAS IN VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION, THE CARDIAC MONITOR SHOWED FLAT LINE. HE WAS INTUBATED, RESUSCITATIVE MEASURES INITIATED AND HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO PALMETTO GENERAL HOSPITAL. 
     UPON ARRIVAL AT THE HOSPITAL THERE WAS NO BLOOD PRESSURE, NO PULSE, HIS PUPILS WERE EQUAL, ROUND AND NON-REACTIVE. THERE WAS NO REESPONSE TO THE RESUSCITATIVE EFFORTS AND DEATH WAS PRONOUNCED AT 2:39 PM.
     PAST MEDICAL HISTORY OF TREATMENT IN THE PAST FOR SEVERAL MYOCARDIAL INFARCTIONS, DIABETES MELLITUS AND HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE. HIS NITRO-STAT PILLS WERE TRANSPORTED TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINERS DEPARTMENT.  
     ACCORDING TO DR. FERNANDO AMAT, HE TREATED THE DECEASED FOR SEVERE TRIPPLE VESSEL CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE AND A LEFT VENTRICAULAR ANEURYSM. HE WAS ALSO TREATED FOR A RECENT EXTENSIVE ANTERIOR WALL MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AS WELL AS CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE.      