Samurai-Wielding Porn Star Leaps To Death After Police Standoff (NSFW)

The new media world being what it is, someone caught footage of adult film actor Stephen Hill leaping to his death yesterday after an eight-hour-long standoff with L.A. police. Hill was on the run from police after allegedly killing a co-worker, fellow adult film actor Tom Dong, with a Samurai sword and injuring two others (one seriously). This from the LATimes:

Stephen Clancy Hill, 34, spent about eight hours on the edge of a rocky cliff in West Hills surrounded by police and talking to crisis negotiators.

With dusk approaching and Hill continuing to threaten to kill himself, members of the Los Angeles Police Department’s elite SWAT unit tried to subdue and apprehend him, using some sort of less-than-lethal weapon, said Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese, who oversaw the incident.

Seated on the cliff’s edge, Hill threw himself over at 5:30 p.m. and suffered fatal head injuries from the roughly 50-foot fall, authorities said.

In a ‘you can’t make this up’ side note, Hill apparently played President Barack Obama in a film called Palin: Erection ’08. If you so desire you can watch disturbing footage of Hill’s fall below. Or you can wait for the premiere of Law & Order: Los Angeles where a thinly veiled version of this storyline will inevitably show up.

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