The decomposing body of a 75-year-old California man dangled on his Marina Del Rey third-floor apartment balcony for days because neighbors thought the lifeless figure was part a Halloween display.

According to reports, Mostafa Mahmoud Zayed killed himself last Monday with a single gunshot wound to his eye then laid slumped over in a chair on his balcony until his body was discovered on Thursday.

Neighbors told a local news reporter that they didn’t call police after seeing the body, which was in plain view; because they thought it was part of a Halloween display.

The Coroner’s office was called to the apartment complex early Thursday evening.

The official cause of death has not been announced.

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