But on Feb. 2, 2013, former Marine Eddie Ray Routh murdered Chris Kyle and Kyle's friend, Chad Littlefield, at the Texas hunting resort Rough Creek Lodge. Routh was convicted of capital murder in their shooting deaths on Feb. 24, 2015.
ouths mother reached out to Chris Kyle for help with her son, who, after he returned home, was acting erratically, smoking marijuana, drinking heavily and even threatening suicide. Though he never met Routh, Chris Kyle agreed to help and asked Chad Littlefield to come with him to Rough Creek Lodge.