     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: ON SEPT. 9, 1996 THE DECEASED WAS FOUND IN UNRESPONSIVE IN CARDIAC ARREST BY FIRE RESCUE AND WAS TRANSPORTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.  HIS INITIAL RHYTHM OF V-FIB. IT DECLINED TO ASYSTOLE AND AFTER RESUSCITATIVE EFFORTS HE WAS REVIVED.  HE REMAINED UNRESPONSIVE AND WAS PLACED ON VENTILATOR.  HIS INITIAL DIAGNOSIS WAS DECOMPENSATED CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE.    
     HE HAD A HISTORY OF COCAINE ABUSE AND A CHEST X-RAY REVEALED OPACITIES OF THE BILATERAL HEMITHORACES, WHICH SUGGESTED LARGE EFFUSIONS LAYERING POSTERIORLY.  HE WAS FURTHER DIAGNOSED WITH ANOXIC ENCEPHALOPATHY, RESPIRATORY FAILURE, COCAINE ABUSE AND CARDIOMYOPATHY.  HE WAS COMATOSE AND ON SEPT. 11, 1996 HE BECAME BRADYCADIC THEN ASYSTOLIC.  DESPITE CPR HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 8:45 AM.