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Timeline Begins to Emerge as More Details of Former Sniper Chris Kyle’s Murder Released: Here’s the Latest

Feb. 4, 2013 8:27am Jonathon M. Seidl

New Details on Chris Kyle Murder: Body Found by Hunting Guide

View of buildings on the property of Rough Creek Lodge photographed Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield were found murdered at the gun range on the property. Credit: AP

It was a hunting guide who discovered the bodies of Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield at Rough Creek Lodge in Glen Rose, TX, on Saturday after Marine reservist Eddie Ray Routh allegedly turned the gun on them, the Stephenville Empire-Tribune reports.

That’s just one of the latest details to be uncovered as a timeline begins to emerge surrounding the murder of the 38-year-old Kyle, the popular author and former SEAL sniper, and his friend this past weekend.

This photo provided by the Erath County Sheriff s Office shows Eddie Ray Routh. Credit: AP

The Tribune says that, according to Erath County Sheriff Tommy Bryant, the trio arrived at the lodge around 3:15pm CT on Saturday and it was the first time they had all went to the range together as a group. Less than two hours later — around 5pm — a hunting guide found the bodies and called 911.

Sheriff Bryant said both men were shot by Routh more than once with a semi-automatic handgun. That gun was later recovered at Routh’s residence, confirming that he did return home after leaving the lodge.

And while we already know that Routh, 25, made off with Kyle’s truck and was arrested on the highway after a brief chase, we now have more details about the time following the incident at the lodge.

RadarOnline.com quotes Bryant as saying Routh actually told his sister what happened after the shooting.

“He stopped and told his sister and brother-in-law what had happened,” Bryant said. “He left to his home in Lancaster and they notified authorities.”

A satellite view of the lodge. (Source: Google)

It’s unclear what else, exactly, he did between the hours after the shooting — besides returning home — and before being captured by

Chris Kyle (Source: Erik Tanner for TIME)

police. However, the Tribune does add more detail about the chase that eventually led to Routh’s capture. According to the outlet, police did use spike strips to slow him down and eventually apprehend him around 9pm CT. You can see pictures of the chase aftermath here.

We also know a little more about Littlefield, 35, and family: His wife, Leanne, is an assistant principal at Walnut Grove Middle School, the Tribune reports.

Finally, Bryant said that it appears Routh’s mother may have reached out to Kyle to help her son as he struggled with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Kyle, who “received 14 different awards and decorations, including two Silver Stars, five Bronze Stars, and two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals,” according to the New York Daily News, leaves behind a wife and two children.

Routh has officially been charged with two counts of capital murder and his being held on a $3 million bond. On Sunday, the Tribune reported that his stay in jail hasn’t been peaceful: he was tasered Sunday evening after becoming aggressive.

“After he ate dinner, he refused to give his tray back to the jailers,” Sheriff Bryant said. “He became aggressive and tried to assault them so they tasered him.”

The local Glen Rose Reporter says he’s now being restrained to a chair in his cell. It also notes that he’s been getting death threats.

According to RadarOnline, Routh had a run-in with authorities about a year ago for a DWI. ABC says Routh was stationed in both Afghanistan and Haiti.

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Comments (225)

JustJason
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 12:41pm
They are handing out PTSD like candy, convincing people to take it just in case later after separation. Later when **** hits the fan, veterans will be unarmed. Cause they be “crazy” and not allowed to own a firearm years prior.

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imperative
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 12:37pm
Could someone please help me understand a few things, like…

How exactly do they know he did it if no one else was there (bodies discovered later by guide)?

They found a gun at his home, but how do they know it was the same gun? Can forensic analysis of ballistics happen that quickly?

If they could determine that it was the same gun, how do they know he pulled the trigger? Is it because he apparently told his sister, and if so, what is the sister saying?

If this gun range is as remote as it seems, how do they know he was even part of the party? Is there a check-in point with cameras?

Honesly, I’m not trying to troll and I’m not saying he didn’t do it, but I just don’t understand how they know all the things they’re reporting.

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- veteran4justice
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 1:28pm
  same questions here!!!!!!!!
  
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nueces
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 12:23pm
Few are talking about the psychoactive drugs this useless scrap of human debris was taking. Just like in almost all of the mass shootings of late. Whatever is in these mood altering drugs they are prescribing the substance obviously causes suicidal and murderous desires. They knew this twenty five years ago with prozac. Yet the drugs they use are all chemically related if not exactly like prozac. Then there is schizophrenia. It often comes on in the mid twenties in males. I suspect the mood altering drugs can actually cause it if not mimic the symptoms. Pill pushing has become a substitute for real medicine and psychiatry. The army hands out drugs like candy. Thus, as lately reported, twenty vets a day end their own lives. This is a national disgrace and monumental tragedy and nobody wants to deal with it.

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CENSAYS
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:55am
I actually don’t believe this. The best sniper today, living in America, a conservative, constitution loving sniper who is in with the military elite? Do you think that any gov’t official who knows what he is about to do, would let this man live? Seriously? DC had a plan, and they waited for the right time to make sure to have someone to pin it on.

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beefrank
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:55am
I wonder if Routh will be collecting a bounty from al Qaeda via Al Jazeera?

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WhatTheFrack
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:48am
Oh, PTSD which is another invented disease by psychiatry to justify medicating. And the guy snapped? Wow, that’s the first time I’ve ever heard of someone on psychiatric drugs snapping and killing….Yes, stress is real but psychiatry is fake and EVIL.

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Richardoky
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:36am
No good deed goes unpunished.

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Charles Curtis
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:23am
Anyone do a blood workup on this criminal… Was he on Anti-Depressants with Psychotropic ‘side effects’. . . POINT being: The drugs they are prescribing may act differently on PTSD patients, and other combat conditioned people… [read also way too much time playing PVP games]

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Lawrence7
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:05am
PTSD from military combat service is a serious issue. The military aspect of PTSD is not, however, the only issue behind many of these tragedies.

As a form military commander, myself, I know that many people come into the military with mental and/or emotional disorders which are often treated but often slip through the cracks of the command leadership. The military studies these statistics, but few if any real news reports report on these greater issues. Much easier to just write an easy shock-piece about a crazy ex-marine gunning people down due to PTSD, and without an serious research it leaves the public to run wild with their imaginations.

We used to have a strong Medical and Chaplain’s element of our military focused on dealing with these issues, but in some of the greatest blunders of modern politically-correct military cost savings endeavors we’ve shrunk these medical and emotional support efforts to the bare minimum. Leaving combat soldiers with minimal medical support and virtually no emotional support mechanisms. Pile all this on with inadequate supplies for personal hygiene and food, as well as stress revealing recreations, (in no small part a consequences of spending cutbacks, inadequate administrative support from the highest leadership offices, and the penchant to use the military for any manner of politically correct social re-engineering initiatives) and we wonder why some people have problems re-entering society?

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- Lawrence7
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:12am
  Truth is we have millions of ex-military and/or retired-military people running around in society, causing no problems, and in most cased contributing as much if not more to society than the average citizen. We don’t hear about these millions, though. What we hear about are the few hundreds of people who are causing problems, and would probably be a problem to society without their military experiences.
  
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fedlibertarian
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:01am
This was an assassination. Pure and simple.

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- beefrank
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 12:23pm
  The work of a ‘Tehran’ candidate?
  
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fedlibertarian
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:59am
PTSD is an excuse the ‘authorities’ use to mask mind control experiments our soldiers currently undergo conducted by the military industrial complex. Don’t buy the ‘ theories’? Fact: Nazis began such research. Fact: US exported most Nazi scientists and gave them new identities in the US, and they continued their research into creation of ‘super-soldiers’. Manchurian candidate experiments have been alive and well for decades. This man was put on ice until he was activated by remote stimulus. Another fact? Our government and industry conducts mind control advertising and propaganda each and every single day on millions of people, and guess what? It works!

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OldVet
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:56am
Do not be deceived! The goal of this administration has been to enact universal “gun registration”. If you will study history, you will find that confiscation follows registration. The “assault weapons” bill is a bluff which they know will not pass. They think we will be relieved to get it reduced to registration. Just like Agenda 21 which will not seem all that bad once we are already registered. I can guarantee that confiscation will follow registration within 24 months. The Administration’s effort to discredit the Republican Party is working. Search your heart, you will see that in 2014 Obama will have control of both the Senate and the House. He already has the Supreme Court, you just don’t see it yet. This will assure passage of any bill the progressives wish to pass. Including Confiscation of Guns. Confiscation laws will result in the killing of countless thousands of newly created “criminals” who will not give up their guns.

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LightvsDarkness
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:56am
I read Chris’s book a year ago, and since then I have basically become one of many of his secret admirers. I enjoyed following him in the news every so often, and I truly felt America was a better place because of him. But today Heaven is a better place because of him. My heart breaks for his family and my prayers are with them. Please remember Chris Kyle’s family in your prayers.

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NewCreationDave
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:48am
“… it was the first time they had all went to the range …”
Nice grammar

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 5:43pm
  Actually, that sentence is perfect grammar. How would you prefer it to read, Professor?
  
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rfycom
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:47am
Whole bunch of crazy in these responses. Brainwashing is a terrible thing people.

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woodyee
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:41am
Time to DUMP the ‘all-volunteer’ carap, and bring our boys home – replace them with those that HAVE NOT SERVED. We can start with the sons and daughters of Politicians, and go into the elitist universities and send some of their PC garbage with them.

All a ‘volunteer’ army does is bleed our Country of patriotic sons and daughters, while leaving their detractors sitting at home comfortably exercising what others have fought for in the past, and disparaging their betters who are on the battlefields.

Bring back the draft or mandatory service, so that ALL PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE for the freedoms they enjoy. Be less useless wars that way (Lybia, Egypt, Somalia, Iraq-2, to name a few).

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1SFG
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:40am
You never go to a rifle range/hunting with someone you do not trust. Not saying this is the case by any means. Just what I practice.

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COFemale
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:32am
If this is not a testament that you don’t put guns anywhere near someone with mental issues, I don’t know what is. This was an accident waiting to happen and the Kyle and Chad did not beat the odds, which were quite high one or both would get shot. Some PTSD people actually think they are back in a fire fight and can mistake you for the enemy.

RIP in Kyle and Chad.

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AbrahamsSheepdog
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:30am
Was somebody banging someones wife??? Or more mental problems due to 0 and his anarchy chaotic leadership. 0 has created a lawless land. He must love it, making a skitsh scared, hopeless america.

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iamsaved
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:22am
It’s amazing the news reports had few details of what transpired when the incident was first reported but they already knew the killer suffered from PTSD. I’m afraid PTSD is going to be the excuse now not only as a reason to commit murder but also a gateway to thousands of disability claims.

Common sense tells you that after World War 2, the Korean War, and the Vietnam war, there wasn’t an epidemic of PTSD like symptoms. Sure, there was what was referred to as “shell shock” and other issues, but not on the wholesale level we’re seeing today. People didn’t go around killing people and then claiming it was due to their time in the service. I believe a lot of these cases are nothing more than a means to get on the government teat for some free money for life. Think not? Just look at the increase in claims. Sure, the politically correct crowd will show their faux indignation at the suggesion, but excuse me, other veterans have been able to suck it up after past conflicts.

I don’t care what set this guy off. It’s still murder and he had the presence of mind to run and hide because he knew what he did was wrong.

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katzkiner
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:14am
Do not discredit conspiracies because of the Alex Jones types, after all isn’t any government the product of a conspiracy. Just try to stay on the rails.

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- sallyboy6
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:20am
  It cant be a Conspiracy i checked SNOPESFORDOPES.com ;)
  
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- katzkiner
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:25am
  And he does have that same “eyes wide open” stare. Look closely.
  
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sallyboy6
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:11am
Timeline for What !!! CONSPIRACY ??? Glenn just believe what your told and sit down and shut up !!! Glenn the Sniper truther ? You like how it feels Mr Beck ? Go back to your DREAM LAB !!!

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- duckyack
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:15am
  People who think like you are the reasons our nation is in such a mess. One has to be a brainless nitwit not to know that 2 and 2 equals 4. In this case, bobamo’s “kill list” of American citizens and his infamous ND1200 law, a law which is more Gestapo than Hitler’s army of murdering thugs! You, sallyboy6, are either insanely obtuse, or you knowingly and willingly join with this Administration, the real enemy of America! You cannot be turned toward common sense because you have none, and what I say here will go in one ear and out the other. By the time you and yours wake up, it will all be over, and all of you “useless idiots,” as Stalin labeled your ilk, will weep for what you so easily gave up to ensure the tyranny of America! You will lament, “But I didn’t know–I believed what I was told!” We know who you are, if not personally, those around you know how you think, and someday you will have to answer for your willingness to bend over for the rest of us. Your very existence will be tragic because social mores will see to that.
  
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- katzkiner
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 1:05pm
  Once tyrants kill the patriots, next all the usefull idiots who helped bring the “change” go into the pit. The tyrant can’t risk letting influential people start a counter revolution. Study the full spectrum of revolution. The rule of law is the only zone of safety in politics.
  We currently are enduring the “famous cult of personality.” Who knows where it will end.
  
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TreeTrimmerJim
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:08am
These are the times that try men’s souls. ~ Thomas Paine

Can we measure all men by the actions of either the perpetrator or the victims?

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- DougHuffman
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:35am
  Thank you. These are, indeed, the times that try men’s souls, even as many deny their immortal essense of humanity. Progressives aspire to be gods. Godly people are armed with wits, guns and the Truth.
  
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noslave
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:06am
sounds like they knew too much(bin laden,etc.??)like ron brown,vince foster,etc. during the clintons whitewater,chinese contributors,debacles??when they were dropping like flies??maybe obammys cleaning house??REMEMBER THREE CAN KEEP A SECRET IF TWO ARE DEAD???

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jrcess
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:05am
26 people died in opposition to the Clintons. Obama and Biden, CIA go Figure. Someone had this boy killed.

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