Chris Kyle is a famous American military who is the best sniper in the history of the US armed forces. On February 2, 2013, Chris Kyle was killed. How exactly, by whom, what became the motive for the murder? We’ll talk about this.
Kill picture
On Saturday, Chris Kyle arrived with two people at the Ruf Creek Lodge Rifle Range. Soon, one of them shot Chris Kyle and another man. Further, according to the reports of police officers, it is possible to put together an approximate picture of what happened.
The suspect turned out to be Eddie Ray Ruth - a 25-year-old guy who also came to the training ground with Chris Kyle and another man. He was arrested five hours later near Lancaster, which is 70 miles from the crime scene. Ruth tried to break away from the car chase, but by the joint efforts of the police and special forces he managed to stop him, but only with the use of special means (spikes).
According to police, the suspect was caught and detained in Lancaster. He was charged with a crime, which is punishable by state law with the death penalty.
Witness reports and murder motive
There were witnesses at the crime scene who saw how Chris Kyle and another man were killed. According to their testimony, the offender opened fire on two men at about 15:30 and drove away in a car that belonged to one of the dead. The sheriff’s service received a message about this at around 18:00. The local huntsman discovered corpses with many gunshot wounds and immediately called 911.
Why is Chris Kyle killed? No one has given an answer to this question. Police said the motive for the shooting and killing remains unknown. In addition, there are no clues or clues that could shed light on events. However, it is worth noting that the American channel WFAA / Channel 8, citing unnamed sources, said that Chris Kyle and his neighbor took Eddie Ray Ruth out of town to help him overcome post-traumatic stress. Already at the training ground, Ruth attacked two men and shot them in the back. The sheriff himself did not confirm the information about how Chris Kyle was killed, however, he did not refute it either.
Today this is all the information that is known to the public. Since the investigation did not establish a motive, no one knows why Chris Kyle was killed.
Assassin
It is known that the 35-year-old Chad Littlefield (the second killed) was a friend of Kyle, but with the 25-year-old Eddie Ruth (the killer) they recently met and went to the shooting range. Investigators claim that at some point, Ruth opened fire on his comrades and disappeared from the scene of the crime.
Ruth himself is a veteran of the Iraq war with post-traumatic stress disorder. Note that veterans of military campaigns often complained about this ailment. He was an employee of the Marine Corps and had excellent rifle training, even received awards earlier, fought in Iraq and Haiti. Then he quit, but the civilian life of the former military did not work out. He did not have a permanent job, he was arrested for driving a drunk car. According to investigators, Ruth's mother turned to Chris Kyle to help her son. Shooting - this was one of the stages of therapy that Kyle used to restore the mental health of veterans. This also confirms the friend of the murdered - Travis Cox. He said that Kyle and his friend took a veteran who suffered from post-traumatic disorder to the shooting range. They just wanted to help him overcome the disease.
Ruth disappeared from the crime scene in a car that belonged to Kyle himself. He first went to Midlothian, located nearby. Sister Ruta and her husband live there. Ruth told them of the deed, and they immediately called the police. At the same time, Ruth immediately went to Lancaster, where he was detained by police officers. A semi-automatic pistol, the alleged murder weapon, was also found in the suspect’s house.
And although it is not known why the sniper Chris Kyle was killed, most likely he was the victim of the killer’s paranoid state, as his sister later spoke about Ruth’s behavior in her house. He said that he could not believe Kyle and Chad, so he killed them before they could kill him.
Punishment
On February 25, 2015, Ruta was sentenced to life imprisonment. However, he does not have the right to review the sentence. At the moment, he is in solitary confinement in the prison of Erath County, he is closely watched. By the way, according to neighbors and people close to Ruth, he seemed quite normal, and the deed did not fit into their heads.
