Police said Stephens used Facebook Inc's service to post video of him killing Robert Godwin Sr., 74, who is seen standing on a sidewalk carrying a plastic shopping bag as the suspect gets out of his vehicle and approaches him from the street.
Police said they had received "dozens and dozens" of tips about the possible location of the suspect, Steve Stephens, and tried to convince him to turn himself in when they spoke with him on his cellphone on Sunday after the shooting.
Selinsgrove state trooper Rick Blair said the Pennsylvania State Police were alerted to be on the lookout for Stephens but Blair said the Valley was not mentioned in the report as a place of interest.
The manhunt spread across the region within a few hours after the homicide, with authorities on the alert for Stephens in Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana and MI.
At one point, Stephens said he gambled his money away at the Jack Cleveland Casino, where a security source said he was a regular.
Smalls tells us if he wasn't fishing, the 74-year-old Godwin was walking the streets of Cleveland collecting aluminum cans, something he has always enjoyed. "He wasn't harming anyone".
Brenda Haymon, Godwin's youngest child from his first marriage, said he was a father of 10. "We're not going to stop until we find him". "He picked up bikes and he fixed them".
The suspect then pointed a gun at Godwin, who shielded his face with the plastic bag.
Joy Lane says Monday she had a relationship for several years with Stephens, now the target of a nationwide manhunt for the Easter slaying.
"I am sorry that all of this has happened", she told CBS News.
She also said Stephens was "a nice guy" who was generous to everyone and was "kind and loving" to her and her children.
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Facebook is reviewing its "reporting flows" after a man posted a series of videos including one that showed him shooting and killing an elderly man to the social network on Sunday.
While the video was eventually taken down for obvious reasons, it took about three hours in total for the video to be removed, likely garnering thousands of views before its removal from the site, Fortune reports.
The shooting video was visible on Facebook for almost two hours before it was reported, the company said.
The company is looking into a number of ways that can "help us make sure Facebook is a safe environment".
"I'm about to keep killing until they catch me", the suspect said on one of the Facebook videos.
"Our reach now is basically all over this country", Cleveland police chief Calvin Williams said at a news conference.
Stephens took the position in April of 2015, after working as a youth mentor at Beech Brook.
"We are shocked and horrified like everyone else", said Nancy Kortemeyer, a spokeswoman for Beech Brook.
An extensive background check before he was hired turned up nothing worrisome, she said.
Stephens's mother told CNN she called him on Sunday after learning about the video, and he told her he was shooting people because he was "mad with his girlfriend".
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