Neighbors Thought Dead Man Was Halloween Display
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Updated: 11:20 AM Oct 17, 2009
Neighbors Thought Dead Man Was Halloween Display
Residents of a Marina del Rey 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.
Posted: 11:20 AM Oct 17, 2009
Reporter: Associated Press
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Residents of a Marina del Rey 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 Thursday when authorities arrived. The 75-year-old man 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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