What trick-or-treaters initially thought was a Halloween decoration turned out to be a man with a fatal, self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head Thursday evening at a mobile home park in Newberry Township, York County, police said.

The children made the gruesome discovery just after 6 p.m. as they walked up on the porch of a home in the 800 block of York Road, Police Chief John Snyder said. They alerted a neighbor.

After investigating, police ruled it a suicide, Snyder said. It appears the 68-year-old man lived alone, he said.

Thursday was the township's trick-or-treating night, Snyder said.