Sunday, October 18, 2009

Neighbors Thought Dead Man Was Halloween Display

Neighbors Thought Dead Man Was Halloween Display - ABC News
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.....


1 comment:

R. G. Maines said...

Eeewwww!! My husband said the article he read today said they think it was a suicide.

There's a new one on me, someone kills themselves by shooting their own eye out?

Gives a whole new meaning to 'you'll shoot your eye out'. Sorry, couldn't resist, that's just so gross, had to lighten things a bit.