“But when he took their lives, he was in the grip of a psychosis - a psychosis so severe that at that point in time, he did not know what he was doing was wrong. He joined the DEP (Delayed Entry Program) his senior year and participated in the recruiting stations pool. Despite his penchant for exaggeration, Kyle was an outspoken advocate for veterans’ rights. Eddie wanted to be a Marine forever, supposedly. “While they were attempting to help him, he took their lives,” he told jurors of the tragic pair. Tom Fox-Pool/Getty Images Eddie Ray Routh in court on Feb. Routh had spent the previous night in a paranoid stupor, his girlfriend is set to testify, according to the defence lawyer. The pair had no idea just how volatile their new companion was. “Two best friends are going to befriend another man and spend time with him doing what men like to do: That is, go out and shoot guns together,” Nash told jurors. Kyle - reputed to be the deadliest sniper in US military history, having logged some 160 kills - especially loved helping returning vets, and took his best friend, Littlefield, along for a day at a shooting range. Routh’s defence team plans to use Kyle’s text, revealed for the first time Wednesday, along with days’ worth of testimony by doctors and medical experts, to prove that Routh suffered severe mental illness and did not know that his conduct was wrong at the time he gunned down the two fellow veterans.īut minutes into his opening statement, Erath County District Attorney Alan Nash told jurors to be sceptical.Ĭhris Kyle was the author of American Sniper, now a blockbuster film. “He texts Chad Littlefield sitting next to him, ‘This dude is straight up nuts.’” “But we know this: About an hour and a half into the drive, Chris Kyle … was on his telephone,” the lawyer, Tim Moore, told jurors of the real-life sniper who inspired the 2012 movie. Even requests for interviews go unanswered. “We don’t know what their conversation is” during that final drive, the defence lawyer for Routh, 27, told a central Texas jury in opening statements Wednesday morning, in hopes of proving Routh was indeed “straight up nuts” and therefore not guilty by reason of insanity. Eddie Ray Routh lives his life behind bars by texannews MaPost Views: 8,114 By Katie Armstrong Staff Writer Eddie Ray Routh hasn’t said anything publicly about his conviction for the murder of Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield a little over a year ago. (AP Photo/Routh Family, Erath County Sheriff's Office) Eddie Ray Routh, a former Marine, is accused of killing Navy SEAL snipe Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield.
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