     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: SEPTEMBER 18, 1996 THE DECEASED WAS AT HOME WHEN HE COMPLAINED OF NOT FEELING WELL AND COLLAPSED TO THE GROUND. HIS WIFE SUMMONED FIRE-RESCUE. UPON THEIR ARRIVAL HE WAS INTUBATED AND C.P.R. INITIATED, MONITOR WAS SHOWING AGONAL RHYTHM. HE WAS TRANSPORTED TO COLUMBIA AVENTURA HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER.
     UPON HIS ARRIVAL INTO THE EMERGENCY ROOM, HIS CONDITION REMAINED UNCHANGED. C.P.R. WAS CONTINUED HOWEVER, TO NO AVAIL HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 11:16 P.M..

     PAST MEDICAL HISTORY: DECEASED WAS BEING TREATED BY DR. FERMAN IN RHODE ISLAND FOR BENIGN PROSTATIC GLAND, RUPTURED ULCER AND PREVIOUS MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION. LAST SEEN ON MAY 6, 1996. REPORTED MEDICATIONS INCLUDED: XANTAC AND LASIX.