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dead man mistaken for halloween prop
Published Oct. 17, 2009Views: 511
Neighbors thought dead man was Halloween display
Posted: Today at 12:26 a.m.
LOS ANGELES — 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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Information from: Los Angeles Times
Gee did his neighbors not even know what he looked like? Was his balcony decorated with any Halloween stuff to give them the idea that this was part of a Halloween display? Did no one in the building hear a gunshot? People are so caught up in their own lives now a days they don't even take the time to care about their neighbors anymore. How sad.
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I'm sure it was or they would not have ruled it as suicide. there are a lot of lonely people in America and as I've said so many times, usually when someone really intend to commit suicide they don't call anyone. The ones who do call after they swallow pills or either they call threatening are usually so desperate they are seeking help. It's the only way they know at the time to seek help. It's sad but this happens more than we think.........
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hmmmmm.....
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