Sheriff
Tommy Bryant: "Around 9pm (0300 GMT) they spiked his tires, the vehicle
was stopped and he was apprehended without any scuffle or fight"
Iraq veteran and ex-US Navy
seal Chris Kyle, known as the deadliest sniper in US history, has been shot
dead on a Texas shooting range, reports say.
His body was found at Rough Creek Lodge range on Saturday along
with that of his neighbour, Chad Littlefield.
Iraq war veteran Eddie Ray Routh, 25, has been charged with
murdering both.
Mr Kyle, 38, wrote the 2012 bestseller American Sniper, about
the psychology of a sniper, in which he said that he had killed more than 250
people.
He served four tours of duty in Iraq and was decorated for
bravery.
'The Devil'
The gunman opened fire at about 15:30 local time (21:30 GMT) on
Saturday, then fled in a pick-up truck belonging to one of the victims, local
media reported.
Erath County Sheriff Tommy Bryant said Mr Routh then travelled
to his sister's home, telling her what had happened before leaving.
She called the police and Mr Routh was arrested near his home in
Lancaster, Texas, more than 70 miles (110 km) from the scene of the shooting,
several hours later.
Sheriff Bryant said the motive for the killings was unclear, and
was unable to explain how the two men were shot.
Travis Cox, director of a non-profit-making organisation Mr Kyle
had helped found, told the Associated Press news agency that Mr Routh was
suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and that Mr Kyle and Mr
Littlefield were trying to help him.
Scott McEwen, who co-authored the book with Kyle, said: "It
just comes as a shock and it's staggering to think that after all Chris has
been through, that this is how he meets his end, because there are so many ways
he could have been killed."
Mr Kyle, a former cowboy, is regarded as the most prolific
sniper the US has ever seen.
Official Pentagon figures say he killed 160 people, but he
estimated the total was 255.
According to army intelligence, he was nicknamed "The
Devil" by Iraqi insurgents, who put a $20,000 (£13,000) bounty on his
head.
He appeared to show little remorse for his victims.
"Every person I killed I strongly believe that they were
bad," he told the BBC in an interview a year ago.
"When I do go face God there is going to be lots of things
I will have to account for but killing any of those people is not one of
them."
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And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one
blessing, my father? bless me, [even] me also, O my father. And Esau lifted
up his voice, and wept.
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And Isaac his father answered and said unto him,
Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of
heaven from above;
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And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy
brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that
thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
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And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith
his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for
my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
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Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of
your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not
in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he
speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
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