I take your point, but there were shooters and there were shooters
the dead were certainly shooters that engaged the cops from the suv.
the evidence of the gun battle precludes the necessity to allege.
besides that if they are dead there is no need to preserve labels that could be used by the defense shyster at trial
The family (CAIR) lawyers called them “alleged” at the news conference. Force of habit, I suppose...NOT.