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02-15-2015, 04:37 PM
A key prosecution witness told a Texas jury Friday that he overheard a former Marine say he shot Chris Kyle after the "American Sniper" hero ignored him.
Kyle and a buddy were gunned down at a rural Texas shooting range. The accused gunman Eddie Ray Routh, 27, claims he was insane at the time of the 2013 shooting.
"I heard Mr. Routh say, 'I shot them because they wouldn't talk to me,'" former Erath County sheriff’s deputy Gene Cole testified. Cole said Routh made the admission after authorities jailed him for the shootings.
Cole, who is now a police officer with another agency, quoted Routh as saying he was riding in the back seat with Kyle and the other man. They were headed to the shooting range and Routh complained nobody would talk to him, the witness said.
"I feel bad about it, but they wouldn't talk to me. I'm sure they've forgiven me," Routh said, according to Cole's testimony.
Kyle, 38, was shot six times with a .45-caliber weapon. His friend Chad Littlefield, 35, was shot seven times with Kyle’s Navy gun.
The testimony may help the prosecutors in suggesting a possible motive for the killings.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/02/14/witness-man-who-killed-american-sniper-chris-kyle-and-friend-said-shot-them/?intcmp=trending
There's more wrong than just the above here. How does a guy who is stoned, and not just on ganja but apparently ganja that was spiked with embalming fluid, and also had alcohol in him at the time, wack two experienced combat vets with two different calibre handguns? If this story is accurate I suppose he had to headshot each of them at the same time right off the bat, dual wielding the pistols. All shots where to the back and back of skull. Testimony in court said that the two were texting each other about the condition of the perp as being nuts. Would you take a stoned and drunk insane person to the range and provide arms and ammunition? One may get the idea that this guy is taking the fall for a hit. Then again, maybe being stoned on pot and embalming fluid as well as drunk turns you into Carlos Hathcock?
Kyle and a buddy were gunned down at a rural Texas shooting range. The accused gunman Eddie Ray Routh, 27, claims he was insane at the time of the 2013 shooting.
"I heard Mr. Routh say, 'I shot them because they wouldn't talk to me,'" former Erath County sheriff’s deputy Gene Cole testified. Cole said Routh made the admission after authorities jailed him for the shootings.
Cole, who is now a police officer with another agency, quoted Routh as saying he was riding in the back seat with Kyle and the other man. They were headed to the shooting range and Routh complained nobody would talk to him, the witness said.
"I feel bad about it, but they wouldn't talk to me. I'm sure they've forgiven me," Routh said, according to Cole's testimony.
Kyle, 38, was shot six times with a .45-caliber weapon. His friend Chad Littlefield, 35, was shot seven times with Kyle’s Navy gun.
The testimony may help the prosecutors in suggesting a possible motive for the killings.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/02/14/witness-man-who-killed-american-sniper-chris-kyle-and-friend-said-shot-them/?intcmp=trending
There's more wrong than just the above here. How does a guy who is stoned, and not just on ganja but apparently ganja that was spiked with embalming fluid, and also had alcohol in him at the time, wack two experienced combat vets with two different calibre handguns? If this story is accurate I suppose he had to headshot each of them at the same time right off the bat, dual wielding the pistols. All shots where to the back and back of skull. Testimony in court said that the two were texting each other about the condition of the perp as being nuts. Would you take a stoned and drunk insane person to the range and provide arms and ammunition? One may get the idea that this guy is taking the fall for a hit. Then again, maybe being stoned on pot and embalming fluid as well as drunk turns you into Carlos Hathcock?