Umm, I hope this doesn’t mean what it sounds like it might mean, i.e., the recently deceased may have had a little help getting that way.
(No, I didn’t read the article, and I haven’t been following the story, so if I sound like a moron, just move on down to the next comment.)
With all the theories about how this happened, consider this. What if the boys realized the tiger was coming after them and they threw the young victim at the tiger in an attempt to get away. Is that murder?