It was a cold-blooded assassination.
His own as yet vague intuitions, combined with this one unsourced report in a mischievous magazine, seemed already to have planted in his superior's mind the certainty of a deliberate, cold-blooded assassination campaign.
While Mielgo was following the mysterious killer, León's emergency services were dealing with something they had no experience of – a cold-blooded assassination in the middle of the day in a public place.
Saeb Erekat, general secretary of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, said that the boy had been "murdered" in a "cold-blooded assassination" as he was returning "from the only nearby swimming pool".
An exotic dancer at the club, Marseilles Payne, known by her nickname, "Trini," said she heard no police commands, but in her telling, the shooting becomes a cold-blooded assassination.
Readers may recall a particularly striking example of a made-for-TV experiment last year, when Derren Brown proposed to test whether an otherwise normal person could be hypnotised into carrying out a cold-blooded assassination, for a Channel 4 series boldly titled: The Experiments.
First, the outpouring of emotion over Charlie Hebdo diminished the importance of the other victims of the January attacks: the cold-blooded assassination of policemen (on 7 and 8 January) and the hostage-taking and killing of four people in a kosher supermarket.
He then continued to fire at Goforth while standing over him in a "cold-blooded assassination," Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson said in court on Monday.
"Tais was also linked to a number of terrorist operations that targeted national and foreign interests, particularly the cold-blooded assassination campaign targeting security personnel in the Yemeni capital," it said.
But the government's insistence on Israel's right to kill suspected terrorists before they can kill Israelis failed to stop international condemnations of what Palestinians call cold-blooded assassinations.
