Question: Why do shooters in the news have middle names?
Question: It's Jared Lee Loughner, It's Mark David Chapman, It's Lee Harvey Oswald, Why do these assassins all have middle names?
Answer: It's a form of Newspeak. Our news media likes to frame the news in a short hand language. By using the words 'Alleged', 'Authority say', 'expert think', they can express more or less of what they can.
The use of middle names is for assassins is just like that. It's the convention that the news media uses. It came about so that when people hear the news they know it's not just any "Mark Chapman" that committed a murder, but a specific one 'Mark David Chapman'.
