The State - News from Aug. 29, 1988

The heart of a unidentified man who had been shot in the head was transplanted at UC Irvine Medical Center after police and hospital authorities made an unsuccessful effort to determine his name or reach relatives. It was the second time in Orange County’s four-month history of heart transplants that doctors harvested the organ of an unidentified donor, a legal but relatively rare procedure. The donor, who appeared to be a Latino about 25 years old, was brought to the hospital’s trauma center from Placentia about 11:30 p.m. Friday and was declared brain dead shortly after 9 a.m. Saturday. The transplant took place Sunday afternoon.