A US man wanted for killing an elderly man in Ohio and posting a video of the murder on Facebook fatally shot himself after a brief pursuit in neighbouring Pennsylvania, US police have said.
Steve Stephens, 37, had been the subject of a nationwide manhunt after he was accused of murdering 74-year-old Robert Godwin Sr on a street on Sunday, before fleeing in a car and uploading a video of the murder to Facebook.
The FBI put him on its Most Wanted list.
Pennsylvania State Police officers found Stephens in Erie County, Pennsylvania, after getting a tip from the public that his white Ford Fusion was parked outside a McDonald's fast-food restaurant.
Steve Stephens was spotted this morning by PSP members in Erie County. After a brief pursuit, Stephens shot and killed himself.
— PA State Police (@PAStatePolice) April 18, 2017
Cleveland police chief Calvin Williams, told a news conference that after a brief chase, Stephens stopped his vehicle.
"As the officers approached that vehicle Steve Stephens took his own life," he said.
"We would have preferred that it had not ended this way," Mr Williams added, saying he and the community would have had "a lot of questions" for Stephens.
Stephens, who had no prior criminal record, was not suspected in any other killings, Cleveland officials had said.
The shooting marked the latest video clip of a violent crime to turn up on Facebook, raising questions about how the world's biggest social media network moderates content.
The company said yesterday it would review how it monitors violent footage and other objectionable material in response to the killing.
The shooting video was visible on Facebook for nearly two hours before it was reported, the company said.
Stephens is not believed to have known Mr Godwin, a retired foundry worker who media reports said spent Easter Sunday morning with his son and daughter-in-law before he was killed.
In interviews before Stephens' death, Mr Godwin's relatives said they forgave his killer.
"I forgive him because we are all sinners," Robby Miller, Godwin's son, said in an interview with CNN.
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Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg pledged that his company would do all it could to prevent postings of incidents like Sunday's shooting.
Speaking at Facebook's annual conference for software developers, he also expressed the sympathy of company employees to the friends and family of Mr Godwin Sr.
