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Stephen Clancy Hill aka Steve Driver

34-year-old adult film star Stephen Clancy Hill died Sunday after jumping from a cliff and falling more than 50 feet. The suicide occurred just before dusk at 5:30 p.m. after a nearly eight-hour standoff with the Los Angeles Police Department’s elite SWAT unit and crisis negotiators.

Hill had been charged with one count of murder and five counts of attempted murder after a brutal attack Tuesday at the Ultima DVD manufacturing facility where he had been working and living. 30-year-old adult film actor Herbert Hin Wong (a.k.a. Tom Dong) was killed in the attack, in which Hill allegedly used a movie prop machete. (You can read all about the initial attack HERE.)

Steve Driver holds a Samarai sword to his chest on a cliff in West Hills
Stephen Clancy Hill holds a Samarai sword to his chest during the standoff

Steve Driver jumps off a cliff in West Hills, California
After being tasered by police, Stephen Hill jumps to his death

Hill fled the scene and police had been on the lookout for him and his vehicle. Someone spotted Hill’s 1998 Toyota Rav4 Sunday morning in the 8800 block of Azul Drive in West Hills, California and notified police. The standoff began around 9:30 a.m. From the L.A. Times:

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 a less-than-lethal weapon, said Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese, who oversaw the incident.

Hill, however, threw himself over the cliff at 5:30 p.m. Waiting paramedics rushed him to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead from the injuries he suffered in the roughly 50-foot fall.

Albanese declined to discuss details of the weapon police used and the plan that had been devised to capture Hill, citing the internal investigation that is launched after every serious use of force by officers. It was unclear whether the projectile that officers fired had struck Hill or missed.

“He was bent on taking his own life,” Albanese said. “It’s very unfortunate. We wanted this to end a different way.”

Here is a video report from KTLA. WARNING: There are some graphic scenes of Hill’s fatal fall from the cliff.

And another video from CBS news posted on Youtube:

CLICK HERE to see SFW photos of Hill starring as Steve Driver in the 2008 political spoof Palin: Erection 2008.