Cleveland police said they are searching for Stephens, a homicide suspect, who recorded himself shooting another man and then posed the video on Facebook on Sunday, April 16, 2017. "After a brief pursuit, Stephens shot and killed himself".
Stephens shot and killed 74-year-old Robert Godwin on Sunday morning.
In the original Facebook video, which has been removed, Stephens pulls up to the elderly man who is walking on the side of the road.
A Cleveland man named Steve Stephens used the social media platform Sunday to post graphic video of himself murdering Godwin Sr., along with a Facebook Live stream where he described killing over a dozen people.
Police picked up the trail in a chase that lasted 2 miles before Stephens took his own life, authorities said.
They said the chase lasted two miles and that officers had managed to disable Stephens auto.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf tweeted a thank you to the state police "for their vigilance in pursuing the Facebook killer". Wolf said he was "thankful no one in PA was hurt".
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The man you see (above) is Steve Stephens, and you should consider him armed and unsafe.
"Steve Stephens was spotted this morning by PSP members in Erie County".
Meanwhile, Facebook responded to criticism for its handling of the incident, as Stephens' account was deactivated more than two hours after he murder video was uploaded.
Through their tears, several of Godwin's children said they held no animosity against Stephens. In the video, he asked Godwin to repeat her name. "An old dude." Godwin can then be seen falling to the ground as a gunshot is heard. Stephens walked back to his vehicle and drove off. Williams addressed the fact that Stephens' actions may have been the result of mental health issues, and he said they wanted to know what led Stephens to do this so they could help others in the future. "We don't know why", Williams said.
"This is a horrific crime and we do not allow this kind of content on Facebook", a spokesperson for the company said.
Police would not speculate on what triggered the killing, but in the video and other footage he posted, Stephens talked about having trouble with his girlfriend and losing everything he had to gambling.
"All I can say is that I wish he had gone down in a hail of one hundred bullets", his daughter Brenda Haymon told CNN.
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