Facebook Shooting Victim's Grandson: 'Please Please Please' Stop Sharing Video of Killing

The grandson of the man whose killer posted his death on Facebook is urging social media users to refrain from sharing the footage.

Ryan Godwin, grandson of Cleveland, Ohio resident Robert Godwin Sr., the 74-year-old victim, tweeted Monday:

Please please please stop retweeting that video and report anyone who has posted it! That is my grandfather show some respect #Cleveland

— Ryan A. Godwin (@god_winr) April 16, 2017

Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are looking for Steve Stephens, who filmed himself on Easter Sunday killing Godwin.

The message has been retweeted almost 29,000 times.

The video of Godwin being killed remained on Facebook for around three hours before Facebook removed it. It was recorded, then uploaded, according to Cleveland.com.

The victim was a father of 10 and grandfather of 14, his son Robert Godwin Jr. told Cleveland.com.

Twitter user Scott Menor responded to Godwin by posting the following message:

Be better people.

Stop gawking and reveling in death and injury [in this case, and in general] https://t.co/fuqX16L27K

— Scott Menor (@smenor) April 17, 2017

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