"announced dead" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate that someone has been officially declared dead, usually by an authority figure or a medical professional. For example: "The doctor announced the patient dead after twenty minutes of CPR attempts."
Around 6 45 a.m., after the Tripathis had received hundreds of threatening and anti-Islamic messages (though they are not Muslim) and after Suspect No. 1 was announced dead from injuries sustained at the shootout in Watertown, Mass., The Associated Press revealed the full name of Suspect No. 2: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
In the early morning of 18 December 2006, al-Jamri was rushed by ambulance from his home to Salmaniya Medical Complex, where he was announced dead.
Panic struck "30 Rock" fans when Kim Jong Il was announced dead on Dec. 18, but how is the writers' room coping?
One of the victims of the Redwood fire, 17-year-old Kressa Shepherd, was announced dead on Monday after spending weeks in treatment for burns she sustained attempting to escape the blaze. .
I would announce, 'Dead people don't like olives,' and 10 minutes later say again, 'Dead people don't like olives.' " Perhaps not surprisingly, he was packed off to Phillips Exeter Academy — "a compound of 700 suburban Republican boys taught by elderly conservatives" — where he published poems in the literary magazine and cultivated a lifelong taste for solitude.
I've got on kid-size purple snow pants and a down vest in hunter's orange over a fleece anorak, and a fleece cap announcing DEAD DOWN WIND that came free with purchase of a scent-free wash used for deer hunting.
Gillis wrote to Daley a good-humored letter that began, "I am still living!" He went on to thank him for saying he was dead, explaining: "It pays to be announced as dead once in a while to find out what people think of you.
The radio announced 26 dead.
The police announced seven dead, plus the bomber.
Umm. EA just announced that Dead Space is now coming out on the 14th of October and not the 21st, which they announced just before PAX.
The wall portraits may take on additional meaning this week just as a convicted Srebrenica war criminal has been announced as dead in prison at The Hague.
