Porn star slaying suspect falls and dies
Published 9:56 pm Saturday, June 5, 2010
LOS ANGELES — A porn actor suspected of killing a colleague died Saturday after falling some 40 feet from a rocky hillside after a standoff with police, officials said.
A “less than lethal munition” was used against Stephen Clancy Hill just before his jump, police said.
KABC-TV video of the incident showed Hill moving to the edge of the outcropping from a seated position and then letting himself drop as police closed in on him.
SWAT officers had spent part of Saturday trying to talk Hill, whose professional name is Steve Driver, down from the hillside as he clutched a sword.
It was unknown whether the sword was the murder weapon in Tuesday’s deadly attack at a DVD production center that also left two people injured.
Hill, 34, fled to the hillside after leaving a house where he was barricaded for most of Saturday.
Hill attacked a colleague with a sword that was used as a film prop during a gathering at Ultima’s studios about a week after being told he was being fired and that he would have to move out of the production facility, where he had been living, officials said.
