Does any political office count?
What about school board or a principal?
What about a chess champion?
What if you’re the prime witness to a huge crime?
Military leaders? Chief of police?
Youtubers, podcasters?
CEO? Small bussiness owner? Manager of a store?
Does popularity matter, or is it only importance?
And lets say the leader of a country got killed, but its by their relative for, say, getting bulled as a kid, and the movive has nothing to do with their position of power? Does that count as an “assassination”?
I think it depends more on the intention of the murder. If the killer specifically targets a person, that’s assassination. Otherwise, it’s homicide? Maybe when it’s a specific group of people it can be called genocide instead
If the killer specifically targets the person for a personal motive, it’s not assassination, it’s murder.
Unless you’re every western government, then it’s just “a conflict”.