The purpose of a news report should be to inform the reader what happened. That's all. Once it attempts in addition to evoke a particular emotional reaction in the reader it ceases to be (only) a news report and becomes an editorial. For this reason, it is better to choose words that describe the deed without an emotional undertone. Thus "kill", "shot dead", etc, are to be prefered over "murder", "cut down", "slaughtered" etc..
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