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Title: Texas man arraigned on murder charges in shooting of "American Sniper"
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Reuters
URL Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013 ... e-sniper-idUSBRE91202K20130203
Published: Feb 3, 2013
Author: Barbara Goldberg
Post Date: 2013-02-03 22:55:47 by yukon
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Texas man arraigned on murder charges in shooting of "American Sniper" Sun Feb 3, 2013 2:53pm EST (Reuters) - The man accused of gunning down former U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, a prominent military sniper, and a second man at a Texas shooting range has been arraigned on two counts of capital murder, the Texas Department of Public Safety said on Sunday. Eddie Ray Routh, 25, was accused of killing Kyle, 38, and Chad Littlefield, 35, a neighbor of Kyle, on Saturday afternoon at the Rough Creek Lodge, about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth, the department said. "They were shot at close range," said department spokesman Sergeant Lonny Haschel said. Kyle, considered one of America's deadliest snipers after killing 160 people during his career as U.S. Navy SEAL sniper, wrote the book "American Sniper" about his military service from 1999 to 2009. Routh, described in local media reports as a former Marine who suffered from post traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD), was arrested at his Lancaster, Texas home several hours after the shooting, having led police on a chase in his pickup truck. "He was taken into custody after a brief pursuit," Haschel said. According to a posting on a website run by members of the Special Operations Forces community, Kyle had been volunteering his time to help Marine Corps veterans suffering from PTSD and mentoring them. "Part of this process involved taking these veterans to the range," said the posting on SOFREP.com. WFAA-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth reported that the two men had taken Routh to the shooting range for the day to help him deal with his PTSD. Routh was arraigned at the Lancaster municipal jail on Saturday on two counts of capital murder, a spokesman for the department of public safety said. The Erath County Sheriff's Office planned a news conference later on Sunday. "It just comes as a shock and it's staggering to think that after all Chris has been through, that this is how he meets his end, because there are so many ways he could have been killed" in Iraq, Scott McEwen, who wrote the book with Kyle, told Reuters. Kyle served four combat tours of duty in Iraq and elsewhere, and he won two Silver Stars and five Bronze Stars for bravery, according to his book. After leaving the Navy, Kyle founded Craft International, a firm that provided combat and weapons training to military, police, corporate and civilian clients. Kyle is the co-author of another book coming out in May titled "American Gun - A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms." In the wake of the slayings of 20 children and six adults at a school in Newtown, Connecticut in December, Kyle was interviewed in January about rising calls for curbing U.S. gun violence. He told the website guns.com he favored arming teachers who have been screened and trained and spoke against restrictions on gun owners. (Reporting by Barbara Goldberg; Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Will Dunham)
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#1. To: yukon, *The Two Parties ARE the Same* (#0)
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Eddie Ray Routh is pictured in this booking photo provided by the Erath County Sheriff’s Office. Routh is a suspect in the shooting and killing of former Navy SEAL Sniper Chris Kyle. REUTERS/Erath County Sheriff’s Office/Handout The D&R progressive neocons ordered the hit because Kyle refused DHS orders to fire on Americans. The sheriff is trying to get hitman Routh off on an insanity plea. He’s been charged with murdering Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in U.S military history but who is Eddie Ray Routh and what made him allegedly turn his gun on one of the countries’ most decorated Iraq war heroes? Routh is accused of killing both Kyle, a retired Navy Seal and author of the best-selling American Sniper, and his neighbor, Chad Littlefield, at the posh Rouge Creek Lodge gun range near Glen Rose, Texas. Now RadarOnline.com is looking at new details about the man behind bars. War Veteran PTSD Mentally Ill Unemployed Family man Criminal record Routh was arraigned early Sunday on two counts of capital murder in the deaths of Kyle, 38 and Littlefield, 35. He is being held in a cell by himself with police “watching him closely.”
You're as mentally unstable as the lunatic that committed the murders, retread.
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They'll give that scumbag the needle in Texas if he's convicted. Doesn't he have that thousand yard stare, typical of someone on psycho drugs?
The sheriff is trying to get hitman Routh off on an insanity plea. Just out of curiosity,do you really believe that shit yourself,or are you just having a little fun with the rubes?
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
The sheriff is playing defense attorney and/or psychiatrist, it seems to me. If I lived there, I'd be looking for someone else to vote in as sheriff. A sheriff should stick to the facts, and not play lawyer or psychiatrist IMO. There's a good chance that he could screw up the trial with those kind of remarks.
You can count on that in Texas. They take out their trash. Doesn't he have that thousand yard stare, typical of someone on psycho drugs? No. Looks like a guy reading a billboard to me. Since it seems like nobody else is willing to mention the 700 lb gorilla sitting in the corner,I guess I will. What the HELL was Kyle thinking to take somebody with PTSD shooting? Was the plan to get his mind off combat by firing off weapons on both sides of him? Kyle didn't suffer from PTSD,so being around people firing guns had no effect on him. I KNOW I am going to get flamed for this,but the majority of the snipers never get into combat at all if they do their jobs right. Blowing somebody's head off from a 100 yards to a mile or more away ain't combat. It's varmit shooting. Combat is when you are in rock-throwing distance from the enemy and can hear the screams and sometimes smell the blood. Snipers mail it in. It's the military equivalent of a drive-by shooting. Granted,he and others like him do a VERY valuable job and there can be no doubt they save a massive amount of lives,but they might as well be artillerymen. On top of that he is a SEAL,and SEAL's,Special Forces guys,and Rangers are Type A people who went out of their way to obtain their jobs,and MUCH less likely to be affected by PTSD themselves. I know literally hundreds of SF vets,and bet I don't know 3 that have or had PTSD problems of the type typically discussed. Yeah,you might have to sleep with a unloaded gun for a couple of weeks or even a month or two when you first get back home or react suddenly to loud sudden noises,but I know nobody that had the nightmare/thoughts of violence things people accept as PTSD. BTW,I know of at least one Army veteran that gets PTSD disability from VN and he never even went to VN. He was based in Germany as a telephone repairman. He told me himself that a lot of the guys in his unit were getting transferred to VN in 1968 and he was so worried about getting sent there himself that he had a nervous breakdown and was hospitalized over it. I know,and am friends with this man and I have no reason to disbelieve him. He is nervous by nature. People who are SEAL snipers are called many things,but "nervous by nature" ain't one of them. He had only been out of the Navy a short time,and there just really wasn't any way he could really relate to people with PTSD. Maybe after 5 to 10 years he may have been able to develop a understanding of the problem because he will have been associating with a lot of non-SEAL (normal) people by then,but it was too early. It is MY opinion that the fact he took that goober to a gun range is proof of this. SEALS and other Special Operations forces aren't freaked out by guns or explosions and it takes a while to understand that others are. I am NOT saying ANY of this was Kyle's fault. The fault,as always lies with the doer. I'm just saying he made a mistake and it ended up costing him his life. BTW,it is also my OPINION that the vast majority of the people you hear about who genuinely suffer from PTSD are harmless to everyone but themselves. It's when you get up with the phonies who talk about "Stacks of dead,burning baby bodies","I bit their throats out and would walk around with veins in my teeth",the "When we got ambushed I would jump out of my truck with a rifle in each hand and a bayonet in my teeth and charge the NVA",and the "I volunteered to pull another tour but the army told me I had killed my limit the first tour and sent me back home before I became too dangerous" people. And yes,I have heard those very stories told at different times. These people have a legend of violence and heroism built up in their own minds they now feel a obligation to live up to,and while we all have fun laughing at them,they CAN be dangerous.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Maybe he's just stating the obvious?
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
I met one of those guys this weekend. He was special recon, had been shot in the head, had the Medal of Honor, was in Vietnam in 1971, etc. and so forth - also had 9 or 11 ex-wives and a shitload of kids. The guy was a mental case and he didn't stay long. He's younger than me and all his stories were BS. The bartender lady was spooked and was glad I stayed until he departed.
She had a right to be spooked. These people can be really dangerous if they think you are afraid of them. It validates their fantasies.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Going back on topic, I've read and heard of many ways the medical/local communities are trying to help PTSD soldier adjust - off the top of my head I know a horse farm that welcomes them on their farm to learn to care for and ride the horses, with volunteers on foot assisting them by leading the horses around the ring - I would have been a volunteer had the farm been closer to me...there are programs to get vets involved in farming, dog rescue and care, and those sorts of things. So to agree with what you wrote earlier - WTF were they doing at a firing range? Tough love for fragile souls doesn't make sense.
Do you think he died because he "lived by the sword". You know like Ron Paul?
Senile old geezers shouldn't tweet. His family should have distracted him with a chocolate chip cookie, and then stomped his ipod. If he lives to be a thousand, he'll never be as dumb as Mitt though.
Just a second. Are you telling me you voted for a senile old geezer?
Reagan was a geezer, and he was still a million times better than Mittens, or his VP poppy Bush.
Anything that gets them involved with animals is a good thing. Domestic animals have a calming effect on almost everybody. Tough love for fragile souls doesn't make sense. IMHO,that SEAL needed about another 10 years time and distance between himself and the world of the SEAL before he was qualified to even begin to understand them.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
No. I think he died because of a couple of mistakes in judgement due to his own inexperience dealing with non-Special Operations people and having never been exposed to PTSD himself. You know like Ron Paul? Now you are just lying.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
I read your comments above. Your assessment was pretty good.
Now you are just lying. I don't lie. Apology? "Chris Kyle’s death seems to confirm that ‘he who lives by the sword dies by the sword.’ Treating PTSD at a firing range doesn’t make sense." - Former Rep. Ron Paul, on Twitter Read more: www.foxnews.com/politics/...al-veteran/#ixzz2JzEvkcUR
Thanks.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
"Chris Kyle’s death seems to confirm that ‘he who lives by the sword dies by the sword.’ Treating PTSD at a firing range doesn’t make sense." - Former Rep. Ron Paul, on Twitter No apology. You wrote it to read like Paul was a warmonger who got killed fighting,and that's the way I read it. Frankly,I didn't know what the hell you were talking about. Taking someone with emotional problems shooting at a rifle range has to be one of the most boneheaded stunts you can pull.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
None really needed. You just hadn't heard the story yet.
Another thing we agree on. I grew up with cats. Loved them all to death. I just wish I wasn't allergic to them. :-)
There must be an acceptable substitute. Look around for it,and the quality of your life will improve while you have a chance to improve the quality of some other creature's life at the same time. Win/win for everybody.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
"Another thing we agree on. I grew up with cats. Loved them all to death. I just wish I wasn't allergic to them." :-) Hi, pete, this is something I agree with both of you on, my love for cats, but I too have allergies and asthma, something I've never had before, and poor Charlee, she doesn't know why she's swiped with cat toweletts before I can go near her.
(“You can't always control who walks into your life but, you can control which window you throw them out of.”)
Sorry, the above post was for you too, pete...&;-)
(“You can't always control who walks into your life but, you can control which window you throw them out of.”)
http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2013/02/who-is-eddie-ray-routh-suspected-killer-of-american-sniper-chris-kyle/
The U.S military confirmed on Sunday that 25-year-old Routh was a corporal in the Marines and served actively from 2006 to 2010. He was deployed to Iraq in 2007 and Haiti in 2010.
He has reportedly been suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder following his last tour of duty and Kyle and Littlefield were at the shooting range trying to help him with his PTSD. Authorities said during a news conference on Sunday afternoon that Routh’s mother may have reached out to Kyle to help her son with his problems.
Erath County Sheriff Tommy Bryant has suggested Routh was mentally ill. “He may have been suffering from some type of mental illness from being in the military himself,” he said. He was a Marine for four years. There may have been complications from that but we don’t know for sure.”
Routh is currently unemployed and his status with the military is listed as reserve.
Routh has a sister who was the first person he allegedly told about what he had done. “He stopped and told his sister and brother-in-law what had happened,” said Bryant. “He left to his home in Lancaster and they notified authorities.”
In January 2012 the Cleburne Times-Review reported that Routh was arrested in Johnson county on a DWI charge. 
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#2. To: hondo68 (#1)
The D&R progressive neocons ordered the hit
#3. To: yukon, hondo68 (#2)
#4. To: yukon (#0)
#5. To: calcon (#3)
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#6. To: calcon (#3)
#7. To: calcon (#4)
#8. To: hondo68 (#1)
The D&R progressive neocons ordered the hit because Kyle refused DHS orders to fire on Americans.
#9. To: sneakypete (#8)
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Erath County Sheriff Tommy Bryant has suggested Routh was mentally ill “He may have been suffering from some type of mental illness from being in the military himself,” he said.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#10. To: hondo68 (#5)
They'll give that scumbag the needle in Texas if he's convicted.
#11. To: hondo68 (#9)
The sheriff is playing defense attorney and/or psychiatrist, it seems to me.
#12. To: sneakypete (#10)
These people have a legend of violence and heroism built up in their own minds they now feel a obligation to live up to,and while we all have fun laughing at them,they CAN be dangerous.
#13. To: Fred Mertz (#12)
The bartender lady was spooked and was glad I stayed until he departed.
#14. To: sneakypete (#13)
#15. To: sneakypete (#10)
I am NOT saying ANY of this was Kyle's fault. The fault,as always lies with the doer.
#16. To: A K A Stone (#15)
like Ron Paul?
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#17. To: hondo68 (#16)
Senile old geezers shouldn't tweet
#18. To: A K A Stone (#17)
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"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#19. To: Fred Mertz (#14)
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.there are programs to get vets involved in farming, dog rescue and care, and those sorts of things.
#20. To: A K A Stone (#15)
Do you think he died because he "lived by the sword".
#21. To: sneakypete (#20)
No. I think he died because of a couple of mistakes in judgement due to his own inexperience dealing with non-Special Operations people and having never been exposed to PTSD himself.
#22. To: sneakypete (#20)
You know like Ron Paul?
#23. To: A K A Stone (#21)
#24. To: A K A Stone (#22)
I don't lie. Apology?
#25. To: sneakypete (#24)
No apology.
#26. To: sneakypete (#19)
Domestic animals have a calming effect on almost everybody.
#27. To: meguro (#26)
I grew up with cats. Loved them all to death. I just wish I wasn't allergic to them. :-)
#28. To: calcon, A K A Stone (#4)
#29. To: meguro (#26)
"Domestic animals have a calming effect on almost everybody."
#30. To: sneaky pete (#29)
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