what they re hearing from this tweet. in your experience, information moves very fast in the age of twitter. this is them being cautious, this is not as if they re ready, they re going to be coing what pennsylvania state police is putting out. absolutely not. the pennsylvania police would not be putting it out if they didn t know it were true. they would have contacted the fbi. they would have contacted cleveland police and everybody that needs to know that this is over. one of the greatest things you do as law enforcement is to make sure you give the public peace of maind. you can t say there s a potential killer out there and not end it as soon as you know that it s over. again, it s interesting to brian s point, the fact that he didn t get as far as you would have thought he did. the last place that the police had identified him being present was erie, pennsylvania. he had multiple cell phones. he was clearly staying off those cell phones. what we do determine is did the
pennsylvania. pennsylvania state police saying after a brief pursuit steve stephens killed himself, shot himself in his car. thank you to the pennsylvania state police troopers for their vigilance in pursuing him. we are waiting now for a news conference in cleefl, ohveland . it was in cleveland on sunday that robert godwin was killing. video of that posted on facebook. steve stephens as been our law enforcement is with us. art, go back to the beginning on easter sunday. something like this happens and they assumed right away the suspect had fled the area. as sarah was just noting 90 to 100 miles up the road. so i assume that would have been sort of the first avenue of escape you would think about anyway, right? exactly. you have to look at the time the
for the past three days throughout this country and possibly internationally since he was fairly close to the canadian border. he could have gone across the border if need be. i know the law enforcements community was even tracking leads as far as away as texas. although initially we looked at cleveland and pennsylvania within the first 24 hours, as it was usually happens, we start spreading out five states the next day and then really anytime after that he could have been anywhere in the country or in canada. ask art to stand by. sarah standing by in cleveland as well. the picture you see auto the right of your screen, a press conference we re expecting any moment from police in cleveland, ohio. the suspect, the so-called facebook murderer found dead in pennsylvania. we ll be back with more developments after a quick break.
so we ve got time now to go back, retrace his steps and figure out what he s been doing over the past 72 hours. absolutely. art, stand by. brian, you brought me this breaking news. what else are you picking up? thinking about the distance. it s about 100 miles from cleveland to erie. this gunshot wound this morning in erie county, this reminds me of a story you and i covered, the shooting in roanoke, virginia. shot and killed two people. film today with a body camera. uploaded it and then committed suicide. this person sharing on social media. the suspect wanting publicity and then taking their own live. they re waiting for this press conference to start. one thing she said is we have this tweet from the pennsylvania state police. those in cleveland who are kind of running the show, they re still working to confirm exactly
in that vein, have you or any of the other law enforcement officials involved had direct conversations with facebook about how to prevent this particular i want, how to prevent it in the future? i have not had personal conversations with any social media outlet. we have direct connections with them. i m sure this is something that s on the radar maybe of some of our political leaders, our city, state, and federal leaders out here to have those conversations not just with facebook, but all social media. thank you. steve calvin williams there in cleveland, ohio, wrapping up a press conference. dramatic breaking news just in to us, the suspected facebook murderer found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. that as police approached his car near erie pennsylvania. authorities spotted the killer in a mcdonald s parking lot. they got a tip.