this has absolutely no bearing on the case. Any time someone intentionally kills someone else it's called a homicide. Even if it is determined that the cop did nothing wrong, it will still be ruled a homicide. I'm not taking the cop's side on this one, just explaining to you. If you break into my house and try to shoot me, and I end up killing you, the coroner would still rule your death a homicide, even though I have committed no crime while protecting myself. I can tell that you're posting this because you took this to mean that the coroner is saying the kid was murdered. While this may be the finding of investigators later, the article here doesn't add anything to what we know. It was already known that the cop had shot the kid, which was all this ruling is stating.