They changed the title because it apparently wasn’t a shooting, not because of potential connotations of “mass shooting.”
A previous version of this story called the incident a mass shooting, based on an interview with police Chief Eric Stubbs. In fact, it was not a shooting. The cause of death has not yet officially been released.
They changed the title because it apparently wasn’t a shooting, not because of potential connotations of “mass shooting.”
I also said so myself?
I’ll edit my comment to fix this ambiguity.