furious said:

Why do news outlets need to say “alleged” gunman? I understand in some cases they have to say “alleged”, because nothing is proven. But if there are photos and videos of you being the gunman, and the cops take you down in the act, with more photos and videos of that, I’d say that warrants just calling them the gunman…

It is a bit silly. They’d be calling him the gunman if he was dead.