American Sniper author - Chris Kyle dies

[bmack]

Sad deal. Guy was a hell of a Navy Seal and a military legend.

http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news...9930193:media_type.1:object_type_name.article

 

[noharleyyet]

Terrible news. Crap.

 

[dustinf]

Damn.

 

[ashersdad]

That is terrible news!

 

[AH64DMatt]

Really makes you wonder if there is any place safe nowadays. What is America coming to nowadays? Decorated war hero gunned down for a truck? I really believe we're in desperate times...

 

[havgunwilltravel]

Read that report, just terrible to think there is so much crime like this going on and all on a very regular basis..even in oz we are having a lot more shootings, stabbings and brutal crimes, it does seem to be getting worse everywhere. I wonder if there is a correlation between general drug use and drug related crimes in the community.

 

[pseshooter300]

I just read this very sad

 

[schmalts]

My bet is it was not some random shooting but a planned out hit or someone just snapped. There was maybe a motive because of his book and military work is my guess, possibly an Islamic payback of sorts?

 

[LopeHunter]

My bet is it was not some random shooting but a planned out hit. There was a motive because of his book and military work is my guess, possibly an Islamic payback of sorts.

Shooting someone and then using their vehicle to leave the scene is not how the boys in Jersey operate. Work in pairs. One drives. One shoots. Drive off and dump car/gun. Or so they say.

 

[schmalts]

Shooting someone and then using their vehicle to leave the scene is not how the boys in Jersey operate. Work in pairs. One drives. One shoots. Drive off and dump car/gun. Or so they say.

Yes even stranger is he took off in the vehicle of one of the ones he shot. Either a very sick person who these guys knew, or some wierd revenge over his sniper job is my guess. Either way, what a sad day for these guys.

 

[schmalts]

Wow, I just read a report that said the shooter was with them, and they were trying to help the dude deal with post war related illness and the guy turned the gun on them. The guy must have just snapped. Damn, that is so sad

 

[Brock-ID]

Sad news, my prayers go out to his family.

 

[tjones]

My bet is it was not some random shooting but a planned out hit or someone just snapped. There was maybe a motive because of his book and military work is my guess, possibly an Islamic payback of sorts?

Double up on the tinfoil hats and beware of the black choppers.

 

[dustinf]

Wow, I just read a report that said the shooter was with them, and they were trying to help the dude deal with post war related illness and the guy turned the gun on them. The guy must have just snapped. Damn, that is so sad

Yeah, I just read the same thing. It was a Veteran he was helping with post traumatic stress.

 

[schmalts]

Double up on the tinfoil hats and beware of the black choppers.

Yep, I was betting wrong on my first thoughts, and man enough to admit it. On a side note, here is a healine from Yahoo news:
"Official: Semi-automatic used to kill ex-Navy SEAL" once again, the liberal news making it all about the kind of gun. I guess at least "assualt weapons" are off the hook on this one. This crime could have been done with a derringer

 

[noharleyyet]

Damn shame.

Sgt. Lonny Haschel said in a news release that 25-year-old Eddie Ray Routh of Lancaster was arraigned Saturday evening on two counts of capital murder. Officer Kyle Roberts at the Erath County Jail said Routh arrived there Sunday morning and is being held on a combined $3 million bond. Roberts did not have information on whether Routh had a lawyer.

Haschel said Erath County Sheriff's deputies responded to a call about a shooting at the Rough Creek Lodge, west of Glen Rose, at about 5:30 p.m. Saturday. Police found the bodies of Kyle, 38, and Chad Littlefield, 35, at the shooting range. Glen Rose is about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth.

Kyle and Littlefield had taken Routh to the range, said Travis Cox, the director of a nonprofit Kyle helped found. Littlefield was Kyle's neighbor and "workout buddy," Cox told The Associated Press on Sunday morning.

"What I know is Chris and a gentleman -- great guy, I knew him well, Chad Littlefield -- took a veteran out shooting who was struggling with PTSD to try to assist him, try to help him, try to, you know, give him a helping hand and he turned the gun on both of them, killing them," Cox said.

Police said Routh opened fire on Kyle and Littlefield around 3:30 p.m. Saturday, and fled in a Ford pickup truck. Cox said that was Kyle's truck. At about 8 p.m., Routh arrived at his home in Lancaster, about 17 miles southeast of Dallas. Police arrested him after a brief pursuit and took him to the Lancaster Police Department.

The motive for the shooting was unclear. A knock on the door at Routh's last known address went unanswered Sunday. A for-sale sign was in front of the cream-colored wood-framed home.

Kyle, a decorated veteran, wrote the best-selling book, "American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History," detailing his 150-plus kills of insurgents from 1999 to 2009. According to promotional information from book publisher William Morrow, Kyle deployed to Iraq four times.

Kyle's nonprofit, FITCO Cares, provides at-home fitness equipment for emotionally and physically wounded veterans.

"Chris was literally the type of guy if you were a veteran and needed help he'd help you," Cox said. "And from my understanding that's what happened here. I don't know how he came in contact with this gentleman, but I do know that it was not through the foundation."

Cox described Littlefield as a gentle, kind-hearted man who often called or emailed him with ideas for events or fundraisers to help veterans.

"It was just two great guys with Chad and Chris trying to help out a veteran in need and making time out of their day to help him. And to give him a hand. And unfortunately this thing happened," Cox said.

Craft International, Kyle's security training company, had scheduled a $2,950-per-person civilian training event at Rough Creek Lodge called the "Rough Creek Shoot Out!" for March 1-3. The price included lodging, meals and shooting instruction. Kyle was scheduled to teach the first class, called "precision rifle."

Kyle is survived by his wife, Taya, and their two children, Cox said.

 

[1_pointer]

Very sad ordeal. My thoughts are with the families of the victims. To think they probably thought having to deal with this sudden of a loss was behind them...

 

[DreaminofMT6X6s]

This pisses me off beyond belief. This guy did everything right. Lived through 10 years of combat after being wounded twice and retired! Shares all this in a book he writes. Then some guy comes up and blows him away at a gun range...what the $%^&! I've had it with this crap...