Missing "Homicides"?

Supposedly, as the Sun Times reports, weekend violence left six dead. But they still use this term:

• Police are still looking at the death of a 32-year-old woman who was shot in the head Sunday night on the South Side as a death investigation.

  Erika Prince of the 7400 block of S. Eberhart Ave. suffered a gunshot wound to the head at 8745 S. Euclid Ave., according to the medical examiner's office. She was pronounced dead at 8:10 p.m. Police Monday morning have no details on the shooting.

We never liked that term - death investigation. If you find a dead body with a bullet in the head and you don't find a gun nearby and there's really no way the gun left the scene without assistance, "death investigation" seems like a cop out.

Spare us the screams of outrage Detectives - we realize there's a time and a place for "death investigations," but it still seems like a cop out.

And isn't this one a homicide?

• A man reportedly sacrificed his own life early Saturday by pushing a female companion out of the way of an out-of-control vehicle that struck the man before flipping over on the South Side. [...]
  

  A vehicle involved in a road rage incident lost control and struck the man, who was possibly walking with his girlfriend, according to an Englewood District officer.

Road rage? Reckless Homicide at the least. Is it counted as such in the homicide numbers though?