Does any political office count?
What about school board or a principal?
What about a chess champion?
What if you’re the prime witness to a huge crime?
Military leaders? Chief of police?
Youtubers, podcasters?
CEO? Small bussiness owner? Manager of a store?
Does popularity matter, or is it only importance?
And lets say the leader of a country got killed, but its by their relative for, say, getting bulled as a kid, and the movive has nothing to do with their position of power? Does that count as an “assassination”?
I suspect that the answer depends entirely on who reports on it first. By the time the rest of the world has had time to catch up, the tone is already set.
For a related concept, consider the use of the phrase “domestic terrorism”.