Wednesday, February 25, 2015

'AMERICAN SNIPER' KILLER FOUND GUILTY

A man's been found guilty of the murder of US Navy Seal Chris Kyle - who wrote the American Sniper memoir which became an Oscar-nominated movie.

Eddie Ray Routh was convicted of fatally shooting Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield at a gun range in Texas in 2013.

He's been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Mr Kyle had been helping veterans deal with combat-related stress and mental illness after retiring from the military himself.

His memoir about his tours of duty in Iraq was turned into a box office hit starring Bradley Cooper.

27 year-old Eddie Ray Routh's lawyers argued he was psychotic at the time of the killings, but the judge read the verdict from a jury which disagreed.

IN: "We the... 
OUT: ...parole."
DUR: 17 seconds


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Judy Littlefield - Chad Littlefield's mother - said the verdict was welcome.

IN: "We just... 
OUT: ...tonight."
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