Steve Stephens, the man wanted for shooting and killing a 74-year-old man on Sunday and posting the video to Facebook, has died after a pursuit with police, according to the Pennsylvania State police.The three-day nationwide manhunt for Stephens, a 37-year-old social worker from Ohio, officially ended around 11 AM after state police spotted his car in a McDonald's parking lot near Erie, Pennsylvania. Cops then tried to pull Stephens over, engaging in a short chase before approaching his car. That's when Stephens then reportedly shot and killed himself inside the vehicle.Authorities said at a press conference on Tuesday that they did not believe anyone else was harmed by Stephens while he was on the run. At an earlier press conference prior to Stephens's death, authorities said they felt "confident" he was not linked to any additional murders, despite the fact he suggested he had killed more than 12 people in the initial Facebook video."This started with one tragedy and ended with another person taking their own life," Cleveland police chief Calvin Williams said Tuesday. "We would have liked to have brought Steve in peacefully and really talk to him to find out exactly why this happened, because there might be other people out there in similar situations."The video, which has since been taken offline, raised questions as to how Facebook and other livestream platforms should monitor their content. It took nearly three hours before Facebook pulled the video on Sunday, in which Stephens laments about a former girlfriend before pulling up next to 74-year-old Robert Godwin and shoots him.On Monday, Robert Godwin's family said they forgave Stephens and asked that people not share the video of their father's final moments."Each one of us forgives the killer, the murderer," Tonya Godwin-Baines, Godwin's daughter, said Monday. "We want to wrap our arms around him.""Steve, I forgive you," Godwin's son, Robert Godwin Jr., said. "I'm not happy [with] what you did, but I forgive you."Update 3:30 PM EST: The manager of the McDonald's where Stephens's car was spotted, Henry Sayers, told the New York Times that staff working at the restaurant recognized Stephens when he came in an ordered food. They tried to stall Stephens so that a member of the staff could notify the police, but Stephens managed to leave without his full order before the cops caught up with him.In a separate interview, Debbie Godwin, the daughter of Stephens' victim, told the Associated Press that she would have liked to see her father's killer captured alive."I'm not happy he's dead at all, not at all," she said. "If you did it, you have to face your crime."Additionally, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg commented on the shooting Tuesday during the company's F8 conference, saying, "We will do all we can to prevent tragedies like this from happening."
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