Calling DELETE on a non-existent document creates a tombstone with empty body

Tested version : 2.8.0. Have not tested in previous versions to see if regression. Shared bucket access enabled

Repro : 
call DELETE on a non-existent  document via the REST API
a document with empty body is "created"with a tombstoned flag set but there is no _deleted: true set  (This flag is set if I call DELETE on an existing document)
I cannot do a GET via REST API on doc, returns 404 as expected. 
 
Expected: I'd expect  the DELETE call just be a noop when there is no document.

Related issue-  why are tombstones getting created with a body ?

On the related issue, maybe worthwhile following up on this forum post where the user is seeing empty body tombstones (but documents supposedly existed) https://forums.couchbase.com/t/strange-sync-issue-what-could-have-happened/28386/3