That’s what “fatally” means? Not sure there’s that much of a semantic gap between “fatally shot” and “killed” other than the former actually explains how it was done.
We say murder and it’s understood as people talking about what happened. When a news outlet says murder it’s considered reporting a legal conviction. There are good reasons why these conventions exist. And it’s the same as why headlines weren’t saying Luigi Mangionr murdered Brian Thompson.
Is it so scary to say “killed”?
That’s what “fatally” means? Not sure there’s that much of a semantic gap between “fatally shot” and “killed” other than the former actually explains how it was done.
You’re right. It should say “murdered”.
Yeah, I’d agree that would be an improvement on the headline.
We say murder and it’s understood as people talking about what happened. When a news outlet says murder it’s considered reporting a legal conviction. There are good reasons why these conventions exist. And it’s the same as why headlines weren’t saying Luigi Mangionr murdered Brian Thompson.
Was she stabbed?
She was shot repeatedly in the face.
Have you been living under a rock for the last 24 hours?
What possible difference does the manner of her death make? A jackbooted fascist thug murdered her.
Then what’s wrong with saying “fatally shot”?
Fatally shot implies the possibility that she was to blame.
That’s not how I interpret it. I interpret it as not assigning blame either way, which is typical for a news organization.
Way better than how a lot of the mainstream would report this. They’d say something like “Officer involved in shooting exposed by hackers”
At least it wasn’t “woman who died after an altercation with ICE”.