(Cleveland) - Facebook is getting out from under a lawsuit filed by the family of a Cleveland murder victim.
A Cuyahoga County judge has dismissed the suit against the social media giant, ruling Robert Godwin Sr's. family failed to prove that Facebook knew Steve Stevens' would make his online threats real with Godwin's live-streamed shooting death on Easter Sunday in 2017.
Stevens spent two days on the run after Godwin's murder and took his own life when he was surrounded by police in Erie, Pennsylvania.
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