Stunned and Offended

Taking a quick glance through AOL's front page this morning, I ran across a link to an article about a man being charged for murder after punching another man (once).

In summary, two men, one white (Massie) and one black (Hawkins), complete strangers to one another, encountered each other in a Las Vegas hotel. A "racial comment" was made, apparently regarding the yellow shirt that the Hawkins was wearing. Hawkins punched Massie in the jaw; Massie was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead less than half an hour later. Hawkins was charged with murder.

I am hoping that this is a case of sloppy reporting - because how the hell do you stick a murder charge on someone for one punch to the jaw?
 
( And just to cap it off, the illustration AOL chose to use for this article? )