She said Kyle told her "he would love to do anything and everything in his power to help her son."
Routh's mother said she initially approached Kyle to help her troubled son, and Kyle immediately jumped at the opportunity. One week later, Kyle and Littlefield were dead. She said she begged VA hospital staff not to release her son the last time on Jan. Routh testified that her son was admitted to a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric unit three times, and doctors sent him home with nine prescriptions, which she described as anti-psychotics, sleeping pills and mood elevators. He said he stopped to buy a Dr Pepper, but got frustrated by the line and walked out.Īfter the state rested its case, the defendant's mother, Jodi Routh, took the stand. Got in the truck and left," Routh said in the recording. Routh said Kyle had just emptied his gun when he shot him. Are you gonna shoot? This ain't a spectator sport." The defendant said he was upset with Littlefield. "What started it? What started it?" a frustrated Routh replied, his voice rising. The reporter asked what triggered the shooting. 2, 2013, when he allegedly killed Kyle and Littlefield at a Texas shooting range. His attorneys on Tuesday appealed the conviction and asked for a new trial. Like sweet cologne," he was quoted as saying. These elements were the thrust of a failed insanity defense of killer Eddie Ray Routh, convicted on Tuesday evening of shooting dead American Sniper Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield at a. A jury convicted Eddie Ray Routh last week of killing Chad Littlefield and 'American Sniper' author Chris Kyle. "There was a smell in the air that morning, you know?. Nearly four months later, from jail, Routh told a reporter for The New Yorker magazine about the day of the murders. Prosecutors say Routh was a troubled drug user but he knew right from wrong. Family members have said the former Marine was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after serving in Iraq and in Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake. Routh has pleaded not guilty to the February 2013 deaths of Kyle and Littlefield. After leaving the military, he volunteered with veterans facing mental health problems, often taking them shooting. Kyle served four tours in Iraq and made more than 300 kills as a sniper for SEAL Team 3, according to his own count. That is the question jury members in Erath County, Texas addressed, on February 25th, 2015, during three hours of deliberation in the Eddie Ray Routh case.
EDDIE RAY ROUTH CASE TRIAL
The trial has drawn intense interest, partly because of an Oscar-nominated film based on Kyle's memoir. It took the jury about three hours to convict Routh for the killings of Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield. The state rested its capital murder case Tuesday after playing more recordings of Routh - one from the night he admittedly shot to death famed former Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield and another from a jail phone interview months later. 24, 2015, a jury found Eddie Ray Routh guilty of murder. STEPHENVILLE, Texas - Lawyers for accused "American Sniper" killer Eddie Ray Routh have begun trying to build a successful insanity defense for their client. Watch Video: 'American Sniper' killer: 'I don't know if I'm insane'
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