A porn actor accused of fatally attacking a co-worker and wounding two others during a violent rampage with a samurai sword died on Saturday after he jumped 40 feet off a cliff.
Stephen Clancy Hill acted under the name Steve Driver and his resume included a role as Barack Obama in the adult political spoof Palin: Erection 2008. Hill jumped to his death when police used a stun gun to subdue him after a dramatic, daylong cliffside standoff in which he threatened to kill himself with a samurai sword.
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 afternoon trying to talk
Hill 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 Chatsworth neighborhood hillside after leaving a house where he was barricaded for most of Saturday. Murder and attempted murder charges had been filed against Hill Friday after Eric Jover, who runs the Ultima DVD production house, offered a $2,000 reward on the company's website for information leading to his arrest.
Hill attacked a colleague with a sword that was used as a film prop during a social 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, authorities said. He then turned on two others who rushed to their co-worker's defense. One of those who attempted to help, Herbert Hin Wong, 30, was killed in the attack.
Whether Hill died from being tasered, the fall or possibly landing on the sword is under investigation, reports KNBC.
The troubled porn actor had a history of assault and threats. In 1999, Hill was convicted of assault with a firearm for threatening to kill a University of Maryland college professor for not giving him an "A". The Los Angeles Times reports: "Hill allegedly told the instructor he was 'a mobster and would dismember the instructor's body if he didn't get the grade.' During the trial, Hill testified that he threatened to kill the instructor after the teacher requested oral sex, which the instructor denied."
Obviously the man had mental problems. And I'm sure his coworkers and bosses saw it at some point, but didnt care as long as he could deliver "wood".
Posted by: Moore | 06 June 2010 at 10:08
Whoa.
Posted by: Secretboogie | 06 June 2010 at 10:15
ummm damn...
Posted by: Daniel Warhol | 06 June 2010 at 11:29
wow. crazy. jumping off a cliff? wtf?
Posted by: worst_1_yet | 06 June 2010 at 16:16
Why is Sarah Palin used as a Tag? For some reason that made me laugh.
Posted by: cullen | 06 June 2010 at 23:56