Posted on 10/16/2009 9:19:53 PM PDT by Steelfish
Neighbors Thought Dead Man's Body Was Part of Halloween Display
The body of Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed, 75, an apparent suicide, sat decomposing on his Marina del Rey balcony for days because neighbors thought the lifeless figure was a dummy and didn't call police.
By Seema Mehta and Martha Groves October 16, 2009
The body of 75-year-old man sat decomposing on his Marina del Rey balcony for days because neighbors thought the lifeless figure was part of a Halloween display and didn't call police.
Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed had apparently been dead since Monday with a single gunshot wound to one eye. He was slumped over a chair on the third-floor balcony of his apartment on Bora Bora Way, said cameraman Austin Raishbrook, who owns RMG News and was on the scene Thursday when authorities were alerted to the body.
Neighbors told Raishbrook that they noticed the body Monday "but didn't bother calling authorities because it looked like a Halloween dummy," he said.
"The body was in plain view of the entire apartment complex [and] they all didn't do anything," Raishbrook said. "It's very strange. It did look unreal, to be honest."
An investigator with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said the case is an "apparent suicide," and declined to comment further.
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“..it looked like a Halloween dummy..”
IOW, sort of like Bill Maher or Keith Olberman or The Messiah or Harry Reid.
Oh my.
‘Mahmoud Zayed’
Now if Mahmoud Ahmadinijad would follow suit.......
What, a walker bomb?
I guess they thought the stench was just a cool effect? Damn, are those people brain dead or what?
This is a sign of the depraved age in which we live.
Put a dummy on the balcony and the police will be along presently to investigate.
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