     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: ON JULY 6, 1996 ABOUT 9:00 PM THE DECEASED WAS AT HOME WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND LYING IN BED WATCHING TELEVISION AND EATING WATERMELON WHEN HE SUDDENLY BECAME UNRESPONSIVE.  FIRE RESCUE WAS CALLED AND CPR WAS PERFORMED UNTIL THEIR ARRIVAL.  HIS GIRLFRIEND DID NOT HEAR OR SEE HIM CHOKING PRIOR TO HIS BECOMING UNRESPONSIVE.
     FIRE RESCUE TRANSPORTED HIM TO COLUMBIA KENDALL MEDICAL CENTER.  HE ARRIVED IN THE E/R IN FULL CARDIAC ARREST WITH NO VITAL SIGNS.  DESPITE RESUSCITATIVE EFFORTS HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 10:12 PM.  
     ACCORDING TO HIS GIRLFRIEND THE DECEASED HAD BEEN STAYING HOME FROM WORK RESTING IN BED FOR PAST TWO WEEKS, BECAUSE HIS LEGS BECAME SWOLLEN AND BLISTERED.  SHE BELIEVED IT WAS BECAUSE HE STOOD ON HIS FEET AT WORK ALL THE TIME.  OTHERWISE HE WAS VIRTUALLY HEALTHY.   
     HE HAD BEEN TREATED BY DR. PULLIAS (661-8984) FOR HIS FOOT ONCE AND WAS PRESCRIBED DICLOXACILLIN.  
     
       