     ACCORDING TO THE INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION:  THE DECEASED WAS AN ELDERLY FEMALE WHO WAS RETIRED AND LIVED AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS WITH OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS. SHE HAD COMPLAINED OF NOT FEELING WELL FOR THE LAST FEW DAYS WITH HEAD ACHES AND DIZZINESS. ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1996, DURING THE EVENING HOURS, HER SON RETURNED HOME TO FIND HER UNRESPONSIVE AND EMERGENCY RESCUE UNITS WERE SUMMONED. THEY RESPONDED, INITIATED CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATIVE MEASURES AS SHE WAS TRANSPORTED TO CEDARS MEDICAL CENTER.
     UPON ARRIVAL AT THE HOSPITAL, SHE WAS IN INTUBATED, IN FULL ARREST. THE CARDIAC MONITOR SHOWED AN AGONAL RHYTHM, HER PUPILS WERE FIXED AND DILATED, THERE WAS NO SPONTANEOUS RESPIRATION, NO PULSE. EFFORTS TO RESUSCITATE WERE MET WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS AND DEATH WAS PRONOUNCED AT 8:45 PM. 
     PAST MEDICAL HISTORY OF TREATMENT WAS OBTAINED FROM HER H.M.O. CENTER WHERE SHE HAD BEEN TREATED BY DR. SHEPARD, KENNETH (644-2400)  FOR HYPERTENSION.
     MEDICATION:  PAXIL, LOTENSIN, NIFEDIPINE, CALCIUM + D AND MULTIPLE VITAMINS WERE TRANSPORTED TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINERS DEPARTMENT.
 *****    THE SON OF THE DECEASED REQUESTED AN AUTOPSY.    ******