“Again, that’s pretty much saying, ‘Duel mother****er.’ “ “So we’re shooting pistols here, huh?” Routh recalls telling Kyle and Littlefield during his conversation with Schmidle. Routh said that when the men started shooting pistols at the gun range, he saw it as a showdown. “Not only was he suffering from a severe mental disease or defect, not only did he not know his conduct was wrong, he thought he had to take their lives because he was in danger.”Ĭousin says Eddie Ray Routh was a 'good ol' jolly boy' “At the time of this tragedy, Eddie Routh was insane,” defense attorney Tim Moore said. Routh’s attorneys have suggested it was the arsenal of firearms lying next to Routh that triggered his psychosis and paranoia on the car ride. It was “strange” because he wasn’t hungry, and he felt the two men were trying to “force feed” him, Routh said to Schmidle. Later in the phone call, Routh complained that Kyle and Littlefield stopped to feed him at a fast-food restaurant on the way to the range. Routh continued, “It smelled like sweet cologne. “It was the smell in the air that morning. “That’s how I felt that day,” Routh said on the recording. Routh didn’t trust the Navy SEAL and his friend after their first meeting, he told Schmidle. Routh described being annoyed with Kyle and Littlefield as they made the 90-minute drive from his home to the countryside gun range. Portions of the recorded conversation were played for the jury. In May 2013, Routh did a phone interview from jail with New Yorker magazine writer Nicholas Schmidle. I’m sure they’ve forgiven me,’ ” Cole said. I feel bad about it, but they wouldn’t talk to me. They were just taking me to the range so I shot them. I was just riding in the back seat of the truck and nobody would talk to me. Routh say, ‘I shot them because they wouldn’t talk to me. Jury hears taped confession in 'American Sniper' trial “It is my opinion that he was suffering from a severe mental disease or defect that caused him not to know his conduct was wrong,” Dunn testified. Mitchell Dunn said his opinion was that Routh’s “psychosis was not substance-induced.” Randall Price, a forensic psychologist who testified as the prosecution’s medical expert, said Routh’s heavy marijuana use caused a “substance-induced psychotic disorder,” Dr. The arguments were in direct contrast to one another. Prosecutors argued that Routh is a “troubled man” who struggles with a “personality disorder,” not insanity. Routh’s attorneys said the former Marine suffers from psychosis, paranoia and schizophrenia. Instead, the jury heard a series of bizarre explanations for why Routh allegedly turned the guns on Kyle and Littlefield. Littlefield was shot five times in the back. Kyle was shot four times in the back and once in the face. Yet Routh didn’t reveal a clear reason in the fatal shootings. 'American Sniper' widow breaks down on witness stand
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