One of those pages was created by Facebook user Wesley Scott Alexander, a stranger 2,000 miles away in Phoenix. While donations were pouring into the GoFundMe page he set up, the Godwin family was warning the public not to donate to GoFundMe due to the proliferation of fake pages. “We’ve gotten word from Mr. Godwin’s family that there are several GoFundMe accounts set up not by the family,” Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams said at a news conference Monday morning. “I am just a kid from Arizona who unfortunately saw this video on Facebook and wanted to help,” he wrote on his GoFundMe page. Stephens was later seen in a Facebook video saying, “I found somebody I’m about to kill.”“I’m about to kill this guy right here.

Source: Washington Post April 17, 2017 22:06 UTC