Jail Deputy Testifies That He Heard Eddie Routh Say Why He Killed Chris Kyle

Photo Credit: New York NewsBy New York News. Former Marine Cpl. Eddie Ray Routh enters the courtroom for his capital murder trial Friday in Stephenville, Texas. Routh, 27, of Lancaster, is charged with the 2013 deaths of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield at a shooting range.

The deranged man charged with killing “American Sniper” Chris Kyle and another vet said he gunned them down because “they wouldn’t talk to me,” it was revealed Friday.

In dramatic testimony at Eddie Ray Routh’s double murder trial, a Texas jail deputy testified that he heard Routh say, “I shot them because they wouldn’t talk to me.”

“I feel bad about it, but they wouldn’t talk to me,” the deputy, Gene Cole, testified.

“I’m sure they’ve forgiven me.” (Read more about what the deputy heard Eddie Routh say HERE)

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Bradley Cooper: Chris Kyle Never Really Left Me

By Rebecca Keegan. “You’ve got your back to the window, so you’re kind of screwed,” Bradley Cooper said.

Cooper was scanning the room from a high-backed chair, his eyes tracking the waiter carrying his breakfast, the guy in the hoodie tapping away on a laptop near the door, the “at risk” reporter staring back at him.

Assessing the potential threats in a space — even in a Tribeca luxury hotel on a sleepy December morning with horizontal rain — was a habit Cooper had picked up while making “American Sniper.”

“After that, you’re more aware of everything,” he said of the experience of crawling inside the mind of the military’s deadliest sniper, Chris Kyle . “He didn’t really leave me.” (Read more from this story HERE)

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