I understand, but it seems clickbait to not convey the information that the judge survived the shot.
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It doesn’t to me. Had he killed himself it would have been described as lethal. It’s standard practice to describe only what’s known, even when doing so is at odds with how the average person would characterize the event — it may well have been his intention to cause a spectacle without taking his life, so it’s premature to describe it as an “attempted suicide”.
I agree with the parent insofar as the title is misleading. I immediately assumed he had died from the title. It's heavily implicit.
I also think it's pretty clear that it was a suicide attempt, and, though I could be wrong, the article itself describes it as a suicide attempt, so they've already made that judgement when choosing the title. Of course, regardless of whether or not it was a suicide attempt, the information that he didn't kill himself could be conveyed in the title.