across the finish line and veteran earl granville who lost his leg in afghanistan, decided carrying the flag off the finish line wasn t enough so he decided to pick up his friend and carry her across as well. i love this. that is a great american. congratulations all of the participants in yesterday s marathon. now we take you back to cleveland, because we are expecting to hear from cleveland police about their search for the so-called facebook killer. a $50,000 reward is offered for anyone who helps police find and arrest steve stephens. police say stephens shot and killed a man at random and then posted a video of that killing on facebook. nbc s jacob rascon is live in cleveland. have police received any useful tips so far? you know, they ve had hundreds of leads they say, they ve had possible sightings in philadelphia, handing out flyers in new york, put all of the state s surrounding ohio on
mr. stephens is a most wanted. he is a does that trigger something in the fbi? does it change anything he has been steve has been a huge priority of everyone up here from day one. nothing has changed, sir. the emphasis, the priority to resolve this matter, could not be at the higher level. rest assured law enforcement does not hold any tools its tool bag, we re playing everything, using everything we have, but in this circumstance as the marshals have said we need the public s help. again, we re using every tool in our tool bag. rest assured we re doing that. again, the fact that he is not a top ten or a marshal s top 15 doesn t change any of the facts that he is a wanted fugitive and again, this information is getting out across the country and quite frankly, across the world. for us in northern ohio, he s our highest priority. at the end of the day. does your experience tell you anything about how this plays
marshal service, there s a very good chance of running this guy down and catching him. notice the marshal said. this guy has potentially committed suicide or held up some place, a friend helping him hide. that s the two track investigation going on right now. well to the marshal s point he said they are using every tool they ve got. clearly this situation has garnered national attention. but how important is that nuance, whether or not mr. stephens is on the fbi s ten most wanted list? yeah. i ve put people on the ten most wanted list. i mean it s nice. it gets public attention. you and i don t walk in a post office anymore and look at those ten pictures. everything is electronic on the internet. but at this particular point, all of the federal agents, the local agencies, everybody, they re spending as much
reporter: stephens spelled off but after a short chase, investigators say he shot and killed himself. there are a lot of questions i m sure that not only the family but the city in general would have had for steve. reporter: authorities had been scouring the area about 100 miles from cleveland since sunday. knowing that he was a gambler and there was a casino in close proximity to where we located him today, we were doing patrols through the casino, all the local hotels, restaurants throughout the last 48 hours. reporter: police say stephens murdered 74-year-old robert godwin at random in brought daylight on easter sunday and posted chilling video of his crime on facebook. she s the reason why this is about to happen to you. reporter: where he also blamed his ex-girlfriend for his actions. seconds after the blood shed came the more filed calls for help. warm, what s your address? lord have mercy. oh, my god.arm, what s your add?