DATE: Sunday, September 28, 1997            TAG: 9709280092

SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B10  EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: NEWPORT NEWS DAILY PRESS 

DATELINE: NEWPORT NEWS                      LENGTH:   24 lines

MAN WHO WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD, THEN REVIVED, DIES OF WOUNDS

Harry E. Kyzer Jr., a homicide victim who was found Friday to be alive as doctors prepared to transplant his organs, lost all brain activity Saturday night and was pronounced dead at 8:40 p.m., according to a hospital spokesman.

It was the second time in as many days that the 35-year-old mechanic had been declared dead.

Kyzer's struggle began around 8:20 p.m. Wednesday, when police found him lying on the floor of his Beaconsdale home, comatose from a bullet wound.

Kyzer underwent emergency surgery Wednesday night, but doctors at Riverside Regional Medical Center pronounced Kyzer dead at 10:10 a.m. Friday, said Newport News police spokesman Pete Edgette.

His body was placed on support systems to maintain vital organs for transplant at his family's request. But nearly nine hours later, ``when he was taken off the life support machines in an effort to remove his organs, Mr. Kyzer continued to breathe,'' Edgette said. KEYWORDS: MURDER SHOOTING REVIVAL

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