Neighbors thought dead man was Halloween display

[The Straight Story]

Neighbors thought dead man was Halloween display


LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Residents of a Southern California apartment complex say they saw a lifeless body slumped on a neighbor's patio, but didn't call police because they thought it was part of a Halloween display.

Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed had apparently been dead since Monday.

Cameraman Austin Raishbrook, owner of RMG News, told the Los Angeles Times he was at the scene in Marina del Rey Thursday when authorities arrived. The 75-year-old Zayed was slumped over a chair on the third-floor balcony of his apartment with a single gunshot wound to the eye.

A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department investigator says the case is an "apparent suicide."

Raishbrook says neighbors told him they noticed the body Monday "but didn't bother calling authorities because it looked like a Halloween dummy."

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[Chemisse]

1. That's actually pretty funny - nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. No sense trick-or-treating at his place this year.........

[TwilightGardener]

3. What person committing suicide would shoot himself in the EYE?

On the balcony? That sounds a little hinky.

[many a good man]

4. Must've used a Red Rider BB gun

His mother warned him!