Cleveland police issued an appeal for information with a $50,000 reward on Monday, and also circulated photos of Stephen's auto and license plate.
Cleveland's mayor says his death brings some closure in the slaying of an innocent man.
Stephens was the subject of a nationwide manhunt throughout Monday and into Tuesday and was wanted on a charge of aggravated murder.
Facebook murder suspect Steve Stephens was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Tuesday after a vehicle chase in the state of Pennsylvania, state police said.
(Facebook via AP). This Sunday, April 16, 2017 frame from video posted on Facebook shows Robert Godwin Sr.in Cleveland moments before being fatally shot.
The man you see (above) is Steve Stephens, and you should consider him armed and unsafe.
(AP Photo/James H. Collins, File).
Cleveland man killed in Facebook video?
Acting on a tip, Pennsylvania state police spotted Stephens, 37, leaving a McDonald's in Erie and went after him, bumping his vehicle to try to get it to stop, authorities said.
WICU reports that Stephens went to a McDonald's drive-thru and ordered chicken McNuggets and French fries.
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Ardella Driscoll lives just right across the street from where Robert Godwin was killed.
One of Mr Godwin's daughters, Debbie Godwin, said she wished Stephens had been captured.
"I'm not happy he's dead at all, not at all". When the two spoke the next day, he told her he was killing people because he was angry at his girlfriend, she said.
Police received more than 400 tips in the search, which expanded to all states neighboring OH and into New England.
Stephens, AKA Stevie Steve, is then reported to have said that his girlfriend drove him to commit the crime. The Pennsylvania police tweeted: "After a brief pursuit, he shot and killed himself".
They said the chase lasted two miles and that officers had managed to disable Stephens auto. "Steve Stephens" death marked a violent end to a almost 48-hour nationwide manhunt.
Facebook came under severe criticism for not removing the murder video for more than two hours.
Stephens says the name of a woman, whom Godwin does not seem to recognise.
Owner Blake Frederick said Stephens visited Sherwin Shooting Sports within the past year. "I am sorry that all of this has happened". Though he claimed in his Facebook post to have killed more than a dozen people, there appears to be no evidence that he shot anyone besides Godwin.
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