very challenged, us fromstraited, and likely depressed man. the murder and the taking of his own life when he was faced with the choice of sbreurrender or d. let s talk now with a former atf official, from your experience, the weapon that we used here and the way he was traced, how did law enforcement narrow it down. he had reports that his phone pinged in erie, pennsylvania. just like clint said. he has the car, a pistol, a tank of gas, he is basically broke. he has nothing. he is alone, his cell phone battery is dieing.
sunday, when this murder happened and the video was uploaded. shortly after that police were able to talk to this person and try to get him to turn himself in and of course that failed. on the following day on monday, they were able to, as i said, they had a pink from his phone in erie pennsylvania. they were looking into it, coordinating with law enforcement in that area, but they still expanded the search to pennsylvania and the surrounding states. then last night after not fighting anything in pennsylvania, or elsewhere. they expanded the search nationwide. and of course we have been reporting that. and then they received nearly 400 tips. just now, about an hour ago, a citizen tip led police near erie to a mcdonald s parking lot where his white ford fusion was parked. he was inside, and after a two-mile pursuit he shot and killed himself.
of the q and a, and the news conference they announced the death just a little over an hour ago in erie, pennsylvania after a brief police chase follow ag citizen s tip that steve step n stephens was in that white car and the suspect had been found in erie, pennsylvania. we heard from the chief agent of the fbi and the major of cleveland. jacob rascon is in cleveland with the latest. jacob, this is an extraordinary series of events that started a little over 24 hours ago with this horrendous brazen murder of a total stranger, a random killing, and a man coming to the end of his ropes. and we can now look back at the time line of all of this. it was midday on sunday, easter
no not that i m aware of, no one was was injured. and they potted him because of the car? is that the initial sighting? yes, because of the ka car and the license plate. and that is how everything started. what we re being told is that at this moment there is no other deaths associated with him. is that what you believe? i don t have any other information on his actions before this morning other than what was reported in the media. to my nothing there was nothing else involved at least here in pennsylvania for the time being. had he gone into the mcdonald s? had anyone called in a sighting that he was in the car pulling up to the mcdonald s when the police spotted him. it was a citizen tip, and then we were able to get a patrol unit out there on scene, and that is when the pursuit
i don t think they re really sure at this time. stand by as we await the briefing from officials here. and pennsylvania governor tom wolf tweeting out thank you to the brave pennsylvania state police troopers in their vigilance pursuing the facebook killer. jacob rascon in cleveland, i think you have more details on how he was tracked down. we were talking about whether or not it came in as a tip. they just tweeted that steph stephens was spotted this morning. they say he shot and killed himself. there we have our answer. it was simply spotted, and he put it well about what was likely going on there. members of law enforcement themselves spotted the car and then there was a pursuit that was brief, and he killed himself.