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Cleveland Police Seek Suspect After a Killing Seen on Facebook | Cleveland Police Seek Suspect After a Killing Seen on Facebook |
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The police in Cleveland were searching for a suspect after a man was fatally shot on Sunday in an act that was broadcast live on Facebook and viewed thousands of times before the video was removed. | |
In a separate video — on a Facebook account under the name Stevie Steve — the gunman claimed he had killed 15 people. | In a separate video — on a Facebook account under the name Stevie Steve — the gunman claimed he had killed 15 people. |
Police officials confirmed that a body had been recovered after the shooting video was posted on Facebook around 2 p.m. Sunday, but Chief Calvin D. Williams of the Cleveland Police said at a news conference that investigators knew of no other killings. | |
The suspect was identified as Steve Stephens. In a video posted on the Facebook account of Stevie Steve before the shooting, a man was shown holding an ID card, with the name Steve Stephens, from a mental health clinic where he claimed to be a case manager. By late afternoon, the videos had been removed from Facebook and the account was deactivated. | |
As the manhunt proceeded, the Cleveland news media broadcast Mr. Stephens’s description: African-American, 6-foot-1 and 240 pounds, and he has a full beard. The authorities said he was driving a white or cream-colored Ford Fusion. “We need to bring this to a conclusion today,” Chief Williams said. | |
He appealed to Mr. Stephens to surrender peacefully to either the police or to a clergy member. | He appealed to Mr. Stephens to surrender peacefully to either the police or to a clergy member. |
Chief Williams said the F.B.I. and state and county law enforcement had joined his department in a search for Mr. Stephens that now extended beyond Cleveland. He said investigators had already pursued hundreds of leads, but there had not been a sighting of the suspect since the shooting. | |
In the minute-long shooting video, a driver pulls up close to an older man on a sidewalk. The driver asks the man to say a person’s name, then pulls out a gun and shoots him. Afterward, the victim can be seen lying on the sidewalk, with a streak of what appears to be blood near his head. | In the minute-long shooting video, a driver pulls up close to an older man on a sidewalk. The driver asks the man to say a person’s name, then pulls out a gun and shoots him. Afterward, the victim can be seen lying on the sidewalk, with a streak of what appears to be blood near his head. |
The police identified the victim as Robert Goodwin Sr., 74, and said that he was shot at random. | |
In the video after the shooting, the gunman pledges to kill as many people as he can: “I’m about to keep killing until they catch me.” |