Update On the Chris Kyle Shooting

                  Routh                                          Kyle                                                Littlefield


The man accused of killing Navy Seal sniper Chris Kyle and another man confessed to his sister and her husband that he had killed the men, according to court documents obtained by WFAA-TV.
According to the court records, two witnesses told police that Kyle, Chad Littlefield and Eddie Ray Routh arrived at the Rough Creek Lodge about 3:15 p.m. Saturday to use the shooting range.
One witness told police that he went to the shooting range shortly before 5 pm. and found Kyle and Littlefield lying on the ground. They were covered in blood. The witness said he called for help and began to perform CPR on the men. When law officers arrived on scene, deputies found the two victims lying on the ground, having suffered multiple gunshot wounds. Police found numerous firearms at the scene, including semiautomatic handguns, semiautomatic rifles and revolvers.

Meanwhile, Midlothian police received a report from Laura Blevins who told them that she had received a call from her brother and that he wanted to come by and talk to her. Routh told Blevins and her husband that he had murdered Kyle and his friend. She advised him to turn himself in.
She told police that he was driving a big Ford F-250, which police later determined belonged to Kyle. He told the couple that he had “traded his soul for a new truck,” the documents state.
He then left their home driving the truck, saying he wanted to get to Oklahoma to avoid Texas authorities, the documents state.

Updated at 3:25 p.m.
The 25-year-old man accused in this weekend’s killing of Navy Seal Chris Kyle and another man was taken to a mental hospital in September after “threatening to kill himself and his family,” according to a Lancaster police report. On Sept. 2, Lancaster police officers responded to the report of a major disturbance in the 200 block of West Sixth Street. When police arrived, they found Eddie Ray Routh walking nearby. He smelled of alcohol, the report said. “Eddie was emotional and crying,” the report said. Police also noted that he was not wearing shoes or a shirt. Routh told police that he was a Marine veteran suffering from PTSD.
“Eddie stated he was hurting and that his family does not understand what he has been through,” the report said.
Police spoke with Routh’s mother, Jodi, who told police that he had been drinking and that he had become upset when his father said he was going to sell his gun. She stated Eddie began arguing and stated that he was going to ‘blow his brains out,’” the report said. Fearing for the safety of Routh and his family, police put him into protective custody and took him to Green Oaks Psychiatric Hospital for a mental evaluation

Dallas police say Eddie Ray Routh also had a run-in with them just last month. On Jan. 19, a woman had called police to an apartment complex in the 7600 block of Churchill Way in North Dallas because she feared for Routh’s safety. Routh was in distress and wanting to get help, so officers took him to Green Oaks for a mental health evaluation. It was his second trip to the psychiatric hospital in four months.

Update at 9:30 p.m.
Police say Eddie Ray Routh, the 25-year-old suspect in the murder of Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield, was tasered after becoming aggressive with jailers around dinnertime Sunday. After eating dinner, Routh refused to return his food tray to jailers. He became aggressive and tried to attack them when they tried to get it back from him, said Erath County Sheriff Tommy Bryant. Jailers tasered Routh and placed him in a restraining chair in his solitary cell. He is on suicide watch, Bryant said.
Bryant also said there have been death threats made against Routh since news of his alleged actions spread.

 Officials say that Eddie Ray Routh, the suspect in the double murder of Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield, fled the crime scene in Kyle’s Ford pickup truck.
At a press conference on Sunday afternoon, Erath County Sheriff Tommy Bryant recounted how investigators believe the tragedy unfolded at a gun range. The three men arrived to Rough Creek Lodge and Resort around 3:15 pm. Kyle and Littlefield were found dead around 5 p.m.

Police were contacted by Routh’s sister and brother-in-law after Routh told them what he had done. When they arrived to Routh’s home in Lancaster to arrest him and saw Kyle’s pickup truck at the home, Routh tried to flee in the pickup. The brief pursuit ended in an arrest near Interstate 35 and Camp Wisdom Road around 8:34 p.m. Routh is currently unemployed, Bryant said. He could not confirm whether Routh was on medication or was diagnosed with PTSD. Routh’s mother, who is a teacher, may have contacted Kyle to “help her son,” Bryant said at the press conference. “We have an idea that that’s why they were at the range, for some kind of therapy that Mr. Kyle assists people with.”

The Stephenville Empire-Tribune is reporting that Routh is being held on a $3 million bond. According to their report, Routh was at the gun range to practice with Kyle and Littlefield when he turned the gun on them.