This Is Wrong

From the LVRJ: Despite growing pressure from news media statewide, Sparks police and their legal adviser refused again on Wednesday to release the name of the 12-year-old boy who took a handgun to Sparks Middle School on Monday, killed teacher Michael Landsberry, wounded two other students and then killed himself.
Sparks City Attorney Chet Adams issued a statement that the Police Department would not release names of juveniles involved in the shooting because it has not completed its investigation. At this point, he said state law allows police to withhold the names of juveniles involved in crime.
But Barry Smith, executive director of the Nevada Press Association, said the agencies legally cannot withhold the identity of a deceased person. He said releasing the boy’s identity has nothing to do with the continuing investigation.
“It’s not their judgment call,” Smith said. “The Police Department doesn’t get to decide what laws it supports and what it doesn’t. The boy is dead. You don’t get to withhold the identity of someone who is dead.”  ...
Students said the boy was bullied at the school and also had family problems at home. Two said he was autistic. All who knew him said he was a nice boy who was always smiling. He is Hispanic, tall for his age. A documentary movie on bullying had been show students at the school 10 days before the shooting.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/sparks-police-reject-media-demands-young-shooters-name
First, I am sure the media knows who the punk kid is and they are not reportig it for some reason.
But why isn't the police dept. reporting the punk kid's name?  are they afraid that the media or other people will do an investigation and find out that the kid is from a well known family or that the kid was in the juvenile system previously and that system didn't work?  Or maybe the kid's family was involved with child protection services?  Perhaps the kid's family is here illegally.
The name is out there, so why the delay?  What is the police department really afraid of?
Release the name and get it over with.