Christopher Scott Kyle ( – ) was a United States Navy SEAL sniper. He served four tours in the Iraq War and was awarded several commendations for acts of heroism and meritorious service in combat. ChrisKyle, fifth from top left, was the most celebrated sniper in American history. His killer, Eddie Ray Routh, may have been suffering from undiagnosed schizophrenia. WhokilledChrisKyle?Eddie Ray Routh shot and killedChrisKyle and his friend Chad Littlefield AP:Associated Press. Kyle had taken Routh, who was suffering from PTSD, to a shooting range Rex Features. Clint Eastwood's 2014 biographical war movie, American Sniper, details the life of ChrisKyle, a Navy SEAL who was tragically killed years after returning home from the Iraq War. PICTURED: Man whokilledChrisKyle also 'almost beat comrade to death'.Routh's trial for the murder of ChrisKyle begins at 9am on Wednesday. He has pleaded not guilty by reasons of insanity for the murders of ChrisKyle, 38, and friend Chad Littlefield, 35. ChrisKyle, whose story inspired the film American Sniper, was murdered in Texas in 2013.Todd Chrisley's son Kyle arrested just months after his parents were released from prison. Cops confirm manhunt as two people are killed after gunman opened fire at college during exam. A former Navy SEAL who said his 150-plus sniper kills prompted Iraqi insurgents to place a bounty on his head, was fatally shot at a Texas gun range.The two men killed, ChrisKyle and Chad Littlefield, worked to help veterans with PTSD. The man whokilledChrisKyle, the subject of the Oscar-nominated film American Sniper, has been found guilty of murder and sentenced to life without parole by a court in Texas. Eddie Ray Routh, the veteran whokilledChrisKyle, the former Navy SEAL marksman who inspired the movie “American Sniper,” was sentenced to life in prison after a jury rejected his claims that he was legally insane at the time. ChrisKyle, a US navy Seal from Texas, was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and claimed to have killed more than 255 people during his six-year military career.
