PERSON: Steve Stephens

A gunman who posted a video on Facebook of the moment he shot an elderly man dead has killed himself after sparking a police manhunt spanning five US states.<br> <br> Steve Stephens went on the run after uploading a video of the moment he murdered Robert Godwin sr. in cold blood in Cleveland, Ohio.<br> <br> Steve Stephens, nicknamed “Stevie,” was 37 years old and described as a 6ft 1ins African American weighing around 240 pounds.<br> <br> After the fatal shooting, he was last been seen wearing a striped blue and black polo shirt and driving a white Ford Fusion car.<br> <br> Stephens reportedly attended a high school in Cleveland’s East Side before attending the business school Myers College in the late 1990s and early 2000s.<br> <br> His next-door-neighbour Alexis Lee has said that Stephens had a bizarre “party trick” as a teenager.<br> <br> She told the MailOnline that he bought a python and would approach women with the slithering pet around his neck to try and win their affections.<br> <br> A video posted to his Facebook page prior to the vicious killing shows Stephens firing a semi-automatic weapon on a shooting range.<br> <br> But prior to the brutal Easter Sunday shooting, he had no criminal record and was not known to police, aside from motoring violations.<br> <br> — thesun.co.uk