arguing whether or not he carried out these murders or not. because he s on tape confessing to it. but what the issue at hand was, did he know what he was doing at the time. because we heard that testimony, that he was delusional, and that he was a paranoid schizophrenic. and when chris kyle and chad littlefield showed up at his house on that february afternoon to pick him up to do this outreach work with him initially routh said he was offended because chris kyle did not shake his hand when they got to his house. and then they described how they all got in the truck together. chris kyle s truck. and they were making their way out in the middle of nowhere out to this large facility out in the country that had this gun range on it. and that s when ralph told one of the psychiatrists that interviewed him, a psychiatrist incidentally that was a witness for the defense that he started
courtroom. casey siegel is outside the courtroom. a relatively quick decision by the jury. we also know that, you know, they didn t expect this right away, because the d.a. told the group they didn t know what would happen if the jury didn t come back with a unanimous decision tonight. the judge said go home and sleep on it. but within about two hours, as we can see casey, they came back. let s listen back in to the judge. i ve been advised that the jury has reached a verdict in this matter is this correct? yes. hand the verdict to the bailiff, please, ma am. mr. routh, if you will please stand. all right. we, the jury find the defendant
this has been dubbed the american sniper trial, and that is not accurate. two people lost their lives that day. they were husbands they were fathers, they were sons. and that really struck me. because frankly, at times during this trial there were points when it seemed like all of the attention was on chris kyle, because of who he was. and he was hard to sit there and watch chad littlefield s parents sobbing, when they flashed pictures of their dead son up on the autopsy table. and with a bullet wound in his face. and they sobbed because it seems as if chris kyle got most of the attention during this. that s why this was a capital murder case, by the way, because in texas the definition is if there are two people killed within the same crime. and that s what obviously this was. that s what eddie routh has now been convicted of here tonight. and that is why they only had
angry, that she stormed out of the courtroom. i was sitting over on the side where the defense was sitting. so in in other words, routh s parents were behind me. and then on the other side of the courtroom was the prosecution. and all of the kyle and littlefield families were gathered there. and while the defense was going at its closing argument, they were hammering home the whole point that i was just making with you about questioning whether or not jody eddie ray routh s mom, should have casey, if i can interrupt you. the judge has reentered the courtroom. we re expecting the verdict. we re going to listen in on what the judge has to say. okay. all right. i ve been advised that the jury s reached a verdict. the record will reflect the jury is not in the courtroom at this
that they had gunshot wounds to their back and that those gunshot wounds had gunpowder residue on them. meaning that both men were shot at relative close proximity. so that is something that we have seen playing out in this, that chris kyle was simply trying to help him, because his children attended the same school that eddie routh s mother worked in. she was a teacher s aide and that s how they got linked up with chris kyle in the first place. she knew he did work with veterans suffering from ptsd. so she reached out to chris kyle and said, can i stick my phone number in your children s backpacks? and chris kyle met with her and said that he was going to help eddie ray routh. and then there was also some testimony and question from the prosecution, because in the weeks leading up to this, there were violent incidents where