While they waited for police to arrive, the attendant stalled Stephens by giving him his chicken nuggets but not his fries, saying a new batch had to be made, Cleveland19 and TMZ report.
It wasn't immediately clear where Stephens had been since the Sunday shooting in Cleveland, which killed a 74-year-old retired man.
Acting on a tip from the McDonald's, state troopers spotted Stephens leaving the restaurant in Erie and went after him, bumping his vehicle to try to get it to stop, authorities said. On Tuesday he shot himself to death after police found and chased him.
After a brief, 2-mile traffic pursuit, Stephens pulled out a handgun and killed himself, Reed said.
The Associated Press reports Pennsylvania State Police spotted Stephens' vehicle Tuesday morning.
Steve Stephens was accused of shooting Robert Godwin Sr., 74, on a sidewalk on Sunday before fleeing in a auto and uploading a video of the murder to Facebook, becoming the focus of a nationwide manhunt.
The manhunt for the Ohio Facebook killer is over.
The two did not know each other, and Godwin - a father of nine and grandfather of 14 - was walking home from Easter dinner when he was approached by Stephens and killed, according to Cleveland police. A tip had led state police to Stephens.
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They said the chase lasted two miles and that officers had managed to disable Stephens auto.
"We have closure", Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said.
"I want to officially announce that the search for Steve Stephens has ended", Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams told reporters at a press conference.
Police say Stephens shot the man dead and then proceeded to upload the video of the killing to Facebook.
"We have a lot of work, and we will keep doing all we can to prevent tragedies like this from happening", he said.
Williams said that law enforcement had received more than 400 tips related to the investigation. Stephens said in a separate video on Facebook on Sunday that he had already killed a dozen others. "As a result of this bad series of events, we are reviewing our reporting flows to be sure people can report videos and other material that violates our standards as easily and quickly as possible", Justin Osofsky, Facebook's vice-president for global operations, said in a statement.
"She's the reason that this is about to happen to you", Stephens told Godwin before pointing a gun at him.
Detectives spoke with the suspect on Sunday by cellphone and tried to persuade him to surrender, police said.
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