"An hour after Liu's body was discovered, a second person, Hao Gu, 46, was found dead inside a car less than a mile away, the agency said.
Ross Township police Detective Sgt. Brian Kohlhepp told NBC News that the men knew each other. Investigators believe Gu killed Liu before returning to his car, where he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound."
The fact that this has the word "Coronavirus" in the title feels like an inappropriate attention-grab here. Something truly terrible happened to a post-doc researcher. The title makes it sound like some sort of conspiracy is at play.
If true, I'd say "a medical researcher said to be on the 'verge of making very significant' coronavirus findings" being murdered makes the headline totally appropriate. I understand that the mind leans inevitably toward the question "was the murder related", making the headline seem like it's implying an inappropriate theory, but I just don't see another way of wording the headline any more neutrally, and I think it would be ridiculous to remove a relevant description from the headline just to avoid that inevitable thought.
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[ 0.26 ms ] story [ 47.5 ms ] threadThe headline and the article try to imply something different. Weird.
"An hour after Liu's body was discovered, a second person, Hao Gu, 46, was found dead inside a car less than a mile away, the agency said.
Ross Township police Detective Sgt. Brian Kohlhepp told NBC News that the men knew each other. Investigators believe Gu killed Liu before returning to his car, where he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound."