Well Mr. Tyler Gray, I'm betting my vast fortune that, if you look hard enough, you can find a musician to blame EVERYTHING on, no matter how big or small the news story is nor where it is.

Somebody die in a car crash ?
Surely somebody wrote about the kind of car(s) involved.

Somebody die in a fire ?
Surely somebody wrote about spark, flame and smoke.

Somebody die of natural causes ?
Yep - that's gotta be covered, too.

'I'm leeeeaving, on a jet plane, (I) don't know if I'll be back again...'
Surely there was a plane crash soon after, right ?

PS - I'm in Omaha, and I've NEVER listened to any songs by Conor Oberst, so I guess if I was to go commit a random act of violence, surely you will find something out there you can attribute to me, right ?