     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, THE DECEASED REPORTEDLY WAS RELEASED FROM MERCY HOSPITAL ON DECEMBER 13, 1996, WHERE HE HAD BEEN FOR RESECTION OF COLON CARCINOMA.   ON DECEMBER 15,1996 AT 8:30 AM., HE WAS FOUND EXPIRED, SLUMPED OVER ON BATHROOM SINK.
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      POLICE RESPONDED TO THE SCENE AND VIEWED THE DECEASED WITH NO VISIBLE SIGNS OF TRAUMA.  MEDICATIONS SENT TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINER DEPARTMENT CONSISTED OF:  , ZANTAC, LOTENSIN, CIPRO, XANAX, AND IBUPROFEN.
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     SUBSEQUENT INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM THE DECEASED'S SISTER REVEALED THAT THE DECEASED'S ONLY PRIOR MEDICAL HISTORY WAS OF SURGERY MANY YEARS AGO, IN CUBA, FOR LEGS VARICES.  WAS RECENTLY DIAGNOSED WITH CARCINOMA OF THE PROSTATE AND WAS NEVER TOLD HE HAD COLON CANCER. SHE STATED THAT AT HOME AFTER HIS RELEASE FROM THE HOSPITAL, THE DECEASED HAD BEEN COMPLAINING OF PAIN IN THE LOWER ABDOMEN AND HAD ALSO BEEN EXPERIENCING SEVERE COUGH.  ON THE DAY OF THE INCIDENT, HE WAS SEEN SLEEPING IN BED AT ABOUT 7:30 A.M., AND AT ABOUT 8:30 AM., HE WAS FOUND  EXPIRED LYING PRONE ON BATHROOM FLOOR, WITH HIS HEAD CLOSE TO THE TUB. SISTER FURTHER STATED THAT THE DECEASED USED TO DRINK, NOT HEAVY THOUGH, BUT QUIT A FEW MONTHS AGO.   HE UNDERWENT A RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY ON DECEMBER 3,1996, FOR PROSTATIC ADENOCARCINOMA.