(credit: Cleveland Police Department)

Authorities continued their search Monday for a Cleveland man accused of randomly shooting and killing an elderly man on Easter Sunday. Police said the suspect, 37-year-old Steve Stephens, uploaded the video he took of the heinous act to Facebook.

The shooting death of 74-year-old Robert Godwin Sr. remained online for about three hours before it was removed. One video circulating on the Internet has been viewed more than 1.6 million times. Family members of the deceased man, who was a father of nine and grandfather of 14, urged the public to stop sharing the video.

“That is my grandfather show some respect #Cleveland,” tweeted Ryan A. Godwin. The message was retweeted thousands of times.