Shocking News True Stories Worldwide » Halloween http://www.shockingtimes.co.uk The latest shocking headlines Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:54:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Dead body mistaken by neighbours as Halloween display http://www.shockingtimes.co.uk/dead-body-mistaken-by-neighbours-as-halloween-display/ http://www.shockingtimes.co.uk/dead-body-mistaken-by-neighbours-as-halloween-display/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:47:24 +0000 Tony Worthington http://www.shockingtimes.co.uk/?p=591 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.

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.

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