    ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION AND INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM MEDICAL RECORDS,  THE DECEASED HAD BEEN COMPLAINING OF NOT FEELING WELL. HE WAS SEEN BY HIS DOCTOR ON SEPTEMBER 18, 1996 AND HAD A PHYSICAL WHICH WAS NORMAL.
 THE FOLLOWING MORNING, HIS WIFE STATED THAT HE WENT TO THE BATHROOM ABT. 4:30 A.M..  SHE WENT TO CHECK ON HIM AFTER HE DID NOT RETURN AND FOUND HIM SLUMPED OVER THE BATH TUB.
BECAUSE OF A DISABILITY SHE WAS UNABLE TO CONTACT ANY ASSISTANCE.  DECEASED DAUGHTER BECAME CONCERNED WHEN SHE WAS UNABLE TO REACH THEM AND SUMMONED POLICE TO CHECK ON THEIR WELL BEING.  UPON DOING SO, THE DECEASED WAS FOUND EXPIRED.
    HE WAS RECENTLY TREATED AT CEDARS HOSPITAL WHERE HE HAD A DIAGNOSIS OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION.  HE HAD A PAST HISTORY OF RECTAL CANCER - RADIATION THERAPY, SICK SINUS SYNDROME, PACEMAKER AND GASTROINTESTINAL BLEED.
     FAMILY REQUESTED AN AUTOPSY.
     
     
                     *** REFILED ON OCTOBER 23, 1996 ***  BAR