In the video played in court Thursday, Routh was sitting in Kyle’s stolen truck when he told a detective: “I don’t know if I’m going insane.” The prosecutor asked Watson whom he thought Routh was referring to, and Watson said, “I thought he was referring to himself.”Īfter being arrested, Routh told a detective he was worried about his own mental state, according to an officer’s body camera video. Watson said this did not alarm him because Routh sometimes made bizarre statements after returning from military service, such as saying the government was after him. Hours later, Routh showed up at Watson’s home and allegedly said, “I’m driving a dead man’s truck” – apparently a reference to Kyle’s truck, which he allegedly stole after the killings. Routh left the house abruptly, apparently because Kyle had arrived to take him to the firing range, Watson said. When asked what they usually did after smoking marijuana, Watson said, “We just sit around and enjoy it.” They smoked marijuana together occasionally, Watson said, and Routh smoked “not everyday, but pretty regular.” He said he showed up and smoked marijuana with Routh, offered fatherly advice about women and played a hymn from his phone. Routh’s uncle, James Watson, testified that on the day of the slayings he was rousted out of bed by a call from Routh’s girlfriend, asking him to come over because she and Routh had been arguing. In other testimony, Texas Ranger David Armstrong said investigators searched Routh’s residence and found drug paraphernalia, including a pipe commonly used for methamphetamine as well as “a ceramic pipe, what’s believed to be a bong, a grinder used to grind different substances and a loose leafy green substance” which lab tests confirmed was marijuana.Īrmstrong also noticed a nearly empty bottle of whiskey in Routh’s kitchen. Routh’s lawyer admits his client killed the men but contends he was insane at the time. He is charged with murder in the February 2, 2013, shooting deaths of Chris Kyle, the former Navy SEAL who was the subject of “American Sniper,” and Kyle’s friend, Chad Littlefield, at a firing range. Testimony resumes Monday in Routh’s trial. 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. Gene Cole, who worked for the Erath County Sheriff’s Office at the time, testified Friday that on June 22, 2013, he “heard Mr.
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A former deputy testified last week that he overheard the defendant in the “American Sniper” murder trial explain why he killed two men.
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