A porn actor suspected of killing a colleague died Saturday after falling some 40 feet from a rocky hillside during a standoff with police, the Associated Press reported.
A "less than lethal munition" was used against Stephen Clancy Hill just before he fell, police said.
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. SWAT officers had spent part of Saturday afternoon trying to talk Hill down from the hillside as he clutched a sword. It was unknown whether the sword was the weapon used in Tuesday's deadly attack at a DVD production center that also left two people injured.
Murder and attempted murder charges had been filed against Hill on Friday. Hill attacked a colleague with a sword that was used as a film prop at Ultima 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. Hill fled in an SUV with the murder weapon.
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