Naming the Perpetrator

Recently there was a shooter in Toronto. I heard some people talking on the radio about something that I had only heard among academics before. It's the idea of not naming the perpetrator after an attack to stop giving notoriety to them and (hopefully) not inspiring copycats.
It seems like a decent idea with one small issue. They suggest saying "the perpetrator" or "the suspect" instead of the name. Those names don't actually convey what happened, so if all media accounts were to change to "the Mohammed" it would work better.
It seems like a decent idea with one small issue. They suggest saying "the perpetrator" or "the suspect" instead of the name. Those names don't actually convey what happened, so if all media accounts were to change to "the Mohammed" it would work better.