Crime

Fugitive porn actor goes over cliff in the Valley *

Stephen Clancy Hill, apparently known in the adult video business as Steve Driver, had been wanted since an attack Tuesday night that killed one and injured two others at a porn warehouse in Van Nuys. SWAT officers from the LAPD surrounded the suspect on the edge of a cliff in West Hills this morning, the standoff lasting hours. Hill had a sword and was threatening to kill himself. Just before 6 p.m., he was struck by a Taser-style weapon and went over the cliff, perhaps having tried to jump. Fox 11's Gigi Graciette has been tweeting from the scene that Hill has been put in an ambulance but was breathing with the aid of a manual ventilator. He later died. ABC 7 video after the jump.

* Updated and edited post






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