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Dead body mistaken by neighbours as Halloween display

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The body of an old man was left on a balcony in Los Angeles for nearly a week as neighbours thought it looked like a Halloween display. Authorities were eventually called to the scene where they found Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed, 78, slumped in a chair with a single gunshot wound to his head.

Dead body mistaken by neighbours as Halloween display

Neighbours of the man said that they failed to call police because the body “looked like a Halloween dummy”. Austin Raishbrook, who was at the apartment in the Marina del Rey district of LA when authorities were called stated, “The body was in plain view of the entire apartment complex and they all didn’t do anything. It’s very strange. It did look unreal, to be honest”.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has interviewed all the neighbours and are treating the death as a suicide.

9 Comments

  • Quality gotta love the yanks
    Mark wrote on 27th October 2009
  • How odd, you would of thought someone would of checked though when he didn’t move for days
    Carol wrote on 30th October 2009
  • I don't beleive he killed himself. \Let the police investigate first then see how things happened. And what this thing with the neighbours why they not realize the man was dead. huh !
    Abdi wrote on 16th November 2009
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    A REAL DEAD BODY WAS MISTAKEN AS HALLOWEEN DISPLAY. | SIS English 09L wrote on 9th April 2010
  • uhmmmmm, eww
    tori wrote on 23rd July 2010
  • wow this is so dum if you see something like that you should always tell someone
    india wrote on 29th September 2010
  • wow
    india wrote on 29th September 2010
  • Very strange....
    Michelle wrote on 20th October 2010
  • omg poor guy bet the people who mistaked felt guilty
    John wrote on 2nd December 2010

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