     ACCORDING TO THE INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION:  ON OCTOBER 15, 1996, AT ABOUT 3:00 AM, THE DECEASED WAS AT HOME WHEN HE STARTED COMPLAINING OF BREATHING PROBLEMS. HIS WIFE CALLED EMERGENCY RESCUE UNITS, THEY RESPONDED, INITIATED RESUSCITATIVE MEASURES AND TRANSPORTED HIM TO COLUMBIA KENDALL MEDICAL CENTER. 
      UPON ARRIVAL AT THE HOSPITAL HIS CARDIAC RHYTHM WAS BRADYCARDIA WITH NO BLOOD PRESSURE, NO PULSE, NO RESPIRATION. HIS PUPILS WERE ROUND, EQUAL AND NON-REACTIVE. THERE WAS NO RESPONSE TO RESUSCITAVE EFFORTS AND DEATH WAS PRONOUNCED AT 3:30 AM. 
      ACCORDING TO HIS WIFE HE HAD A HISTORY OF ASTHMA AND HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE. NO MEDICATION WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINERS DEPARTMENT.     