Orlando Letelier assassination a lot bloodier

What, if anything, might be the geopolitical fallout if the killing of Orlando Letelier had gone totally off the rails, with a higher body count and/or more sympathetic(from an "Average Joe" POV) victims?

For example, instead of just taking out Letelier and some chick working for a lefty lobby group, what if the car-bomb had killed an elementary school teacher and a few kids from Peoria, on a field trip to the capital, who just happened to be crossing the street at the wrong time?

And we can even sweeten the pot and say an immediate family-member of some Senator is also maimed or killed in the explosion.

Would this lead to a worse rupture in US/Chilean relations? Or would the attitude just be "Well, he may be a psychopath who turns kids into sawdust right in the middle of our capital city, but he's OUR psychopath who etc"?
 
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