Last month, Steve Stephens, a 37-year-old man who worked with developmentally challenged children, shocked the word when he executed 74-year-old Robert Godwin while broadcasting live video on Facebook.  Stephens, who would later tell his mother he committed the heinous crime because he was angry at his girlfriend, would lead law enforcement on a manhunt spanning multiple states over the course of two days that would ultimately culminate in Stephens taking his own life.

Now, nearly a month after the dramatic events of that fateful Tuesday, the Pennsylvania State Police officers credited with bringing Stevens to justice shared their story on Thursday.

Cpl. Aaron Davis and Cpl. Mark Van Horn were the officers tasked with responding to a tip called in by a concerned McDonald’s employee that claimed to recognize Stephens from the news.  Hundreds of such tips had flooded into law enforcement agencies across five states in the two days leading up to the call, so the troopers may not have expected to find the white Ford Fusion they were looking for when they arrived, but Davis says he realized he had their man when he spotted Stephens through the rear-view mirror of his car.

“Dispatch was saying there’s a white Ford Fusion with Ohio tags leaving the drive-thru right now,” Davis recalled. “Then, I actually saw the vehicle go by and we were trying to catch up to him.”