     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: ON AUG. 4, 1996 ABOUT 1:15 PM THE DECEASED, AN AUTISTIC CHILD, WAS WADING IN A DESIGNATED SWIMMING AREA BEHIND 8900 SW 150TH PLACE CIRCLE.  ACCORDING TO HIS MOTHER HE WENT UNDER THE WATER AND DID NOT RESURFACE.  FIRE RESCUE RESPONDED AND TRANSPORTED HIM TO BAPTIST HOSPITAL OF MIAMI.       HE ARRIVED IN THE E/R UNRESPONSIVE WITH CPR IN PROGRESS.  AFTER VIGOROUS CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION THE DECEASED REGAINED A HEART RATE AND HE WAS PLACED ON LIFE SUPPORT.  HIS PUPILS WERE EXTREMELY DILATED AND UNRESPONSIVE.  A CATHETER WAS IN PLACE IN THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS NECK.  THERE WAS GOOD AIR ENTRY BILATERALLY, BUT THERE WAS NO WITHDRAWAL TO PAINFUL STIMULI, NO GAG AND NO CORNEAL REFLEX NOTED.  HIS PROGNOSIS WAS VERY POOR.  ON AUG. 6, 1996 HE HAD SPIKED FEVERS BETWEEN 102 AND 106, HAD A LOT OF UPPER AIRWAY CONGESTION AND SECRETIONS AND A NEUROLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF AUG. 5, 1996 SHOWED NO EVIDENCE OF BRAIN STEM FUNCTION.  HE REMAINED UNRESPONSIVE AND ON AUG. 8, 1996 ANOTHER NEUROLOGICAL EXAMINATION SHOWED NO BRAIN ACTIVITY AND LIFE SUPPORT WAS DISCONNECTED.  HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 6:43 PM.
     ACCORDING TO HOSPITAL CHART THE CASE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION WITH H.R.S. (MS. HAYWOOD 234-2272).  THE MOTHER IS REPORTEDLY DYSFUNCTIONAL EVEN PRIOR TO DECEDENT'S ACCIDENT AND IS MORE SO SINCE HIS DEATH AND SHE HAS NO FUNDS FOR FUNERAL SERVICES.