Not impossible, but it isn't usually a punch that kills people, it's the head striking an object, or injuries sustained being knocked off your feet...and yes, I would call any result in effect dying from the punch.

As I recall that black "kid" gave the guy chances to shut his frigging mouth, he did not deserve to die, but he did in fact deserve to be punched.

A friend of mine had a mother figure he was raised by...in his words she was an ornery racist old thing, he said he saw her yell and cuss at Mexicans in stores many times, hated them. What is that in reality? She was a nasty mean spirited old hag...did the world a favor by dying.

She needed to be stopped earlier in her life, charged with felony hate charges to where she was better civilized if she was out in public.

It was not a 'kid' who punched the elderly man. Consider this, in the US between 500 and 1000 people die yearly from punch(es) to the head. No matter how old, big, strong, healthy or experienced with fighting someone is, one punch can be enough to kill anyone, or cause them permanent, life-altering damage. When a person is punched on the head, the impact will cause the brain to hit the skull.

Like a large bouncy ball in a small space, the brain then rebounds and smash into the other side of the skull. This bouncing back and forth can also cause twisting of the brain: again, think of the large ball bouncing around in a small space that’s not quite spherical, like a skull with facial bones. Once brain cells are damaged, the don't regenerate.

When picturing the impact of a punch or fall on the brain, Professor Andrew Kaye, Head of Neurosurgery at The Royal Melbourne Hospital, says to think of the brain like jelly on a plate: shake the plate hard enough and the jelly will shake and begin to tear. When a brain ‘rattles’ inside the skull, the neurons and cells making up the soft brain tissue is damaged and torn apart.

There are a number of conditions that can result from this trauma to the brain. As far as I know, a word (used in anger) can't kill anyone. Lastly, the reason the elderly man went into the store is BAD CUSTOMER SERVICE at the drive through, should the manager have addressed his employees' disrespect to the customers rather than leaving the safety (although the old man was unarmed) to get in the elder's face and punch him? Remember, the police had been called.

There are bigots, of all races, who say many bad things, I do hope you are not implying it is okay to punch or kill them because words offend but can't kill. Also, in many states, had the old man been packing he could have shot and killed the manager, using self-defense as legal standing. But, this 77 YO did not have a gun or means to defend himself. So, he was murdered because a 27 YO man could not control himself.

Regarding your story about the woman. She may have had her reasons for her dislikes, and in the end, who cares? This is a discussion of using lethal force on an old man.

Big difference between intentionally killing someone and punching them and that being an unintended result...

And he should get held accountable for punching the man in the first place, fired and get charged with misdemeanor assault...and the "old man" should have been prosecuted for hate crimes and inciting.

Neither is okay, and both should be punished...

But you know something, an old man should know when it's time to keep his frigging mouth shut when he's too old to be fighting with people, call a spade a spade and you may get punched, it isn't okay...and it sure as hell isn't okay to call people racial slurs, that has nothing to do with freedom of speech.