If someone dies in his sleep, that's homicide?
If unobserved/unwitnessed and there is no medical reason to suspect it yes. Ask a SIDS parent. Many innocent looking death scenes result in being ruled homicides, while equivocal death as well applies to almost every infant death scene. It has long been a well-known fact in medical science that neonates and infants do not die absent reason or cause. Therefore, the death of any child should be regarded as sudden and unexpected and the protocol and responsibilities that apply to adult death scenes are applied to those of infants if there is no reasonable explaination.
whoops hit post instead of preview. ANyways, SIDS death, or a heart attack (unobserved) in a deer stand lets say, have been/were ruled homicides until later proven NOT to be either criminal, accidental, suicidal, etc. Some states are more lenient and won’t classify them that way, though. Some do....right off the bat.
homicide literally means “death by man”
aka a human being was the primary and/or proximate cause of death