ERIE COUNTY, Penn. – The suspect in the random killing of a Cleveland retiree posted on Facebook has shot and killed himself after a brief pursuit.

State police say Steve Stephens was spotted Tuesday morning by state police in Erie County, in the state's northwest corner. Authorities say police tried to pull Stephens over and, after a brief pursuit, he shot and killed himself.

Cleveland police Chief Calvin Williams says authorities received a tip that Stephens' vehicle was in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Erie.

"We're grateful that this has ended," the police chief said. "We would prefer that it had not ended this way because there are a lot of questions, I'm sure, that not only the family but the city in general would have had for Steve."

Stephens was wanted on an aggravated murder charge in the shooting death of a 74-year-old Robert Godwin Sr. in Cleveland on Sunday.

It wasn't immediately clear where Stephens had been since the shooting. Williams says investigators had hoped to talk with Stephens to find out a motive.

Godwin's daughters spoke after learning of the death of their father's alleged killer.

Debbie Godwin tells The Associated Press she would have preferred that Stephens remain alive and face prison time for the shooting of her father. She says: "If you did it, you have to face your crime."

Godwin's other daughter, Brenda Haymon, learned of Stephens' death as she was planning funeral arrangements for her father.

"All I can say is that I wish he had gone down in a hail of 100 bullets," Haymon told CNN. "I wish it had gone down like that instead of him shooting himself."