US Police on Sunday urged a suspect who they said broadcast video of himself murdering an elderly man on Facebook to turn himself in to authorities.
Officials in the city of Cleveland, Ohio state said the suspect they were looking for is named Steve Stephens, 37, who shot his 74-year old victim at random, a cold-blooded killing which was live streamed on the popular Internet site.
Police also said although he was wanted in connection with the one confirmed killing, they had found no evidence to support what police said was a claim he made in the video of having killed more than a dozen other people in an Easter Day massacre.
"The suspect did broadcast the killing on Facebook Live (Facebook's live-streaming video service) and has claimed to have committed multiple other homicides which are yet to be verified," Cleveland police wrote on Twitter.
Cleveland Division of Police release photo of suspect Steve Stephens/ Reuters Photo
"Everybody is out there looking for Steve," Calvin Williams, Cleveland police chief, told a news conference, where he joined Mayor Frank Jackson in asking Stephens to turn himself in.
"We want this to end with as much peace we can bring to this right now," Williams said, adding that local authorities were working with the FBI and regional law enforcement.
Mayor Frank Jackson told reporters police were still trying to communicate with the suspect.
"We want to communicate to him that we know who he is, and that he will eventually be caught. And that we're saying to him that he need not do any more," said Jackson.
Stephens was said to be fleeing in a white or cream-colored Ford Fusion with temporary license plates, and that he was armed and dangerous.
(Source: Reuters, AFP)
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