[BloodEagle]

This wasn't any sort of threat.  It was a ringtone.  Plenty of music covers violent subject matter (including things far worse than what she thought was said), but no one reacts THIS strongly to it. Hell, the kid was issued a 'don't do it again', FOR LISTENING TO MUSIC IN PUBLIC.

I can't help but feel that we didn't get all of the information about this.

[deathfun]

But it was construed as one
That's the key point here

And yeah, that's also a possibility. News outlets have a tendency to leave out details or context sensitive things