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Ex -Navy sniper, another military vet killed at Texas gun range Page 2 of 4 Former Navy SEAL killed at gun range Kos: Kyle always wanted to help people SEAL: Insurgents knew how to identify me Ex -Navy sniper killed at Texas gun range Littlefield -- both unconscious -- around 5 p.m., Bryant said. year - old Kyle and 35- year- old He went to the lodge and called 911. Law enforcement officers followed up and found the bodies but no sign of Routh. He had taken off in Kyle's black Ford pickup, the Erath County sheriff said. Around the time an all -points bulletin went out for that truck, authorities got a call from Routh's sister, who reported that her brother had driven about 65 miles to her home in Midlothian, Texas, and admitted to shooting Kyle and Littlefield. Routh left his sister's house, and police eventually caught up with him -- and the truck -- shortly before 8 p.m. at his home in Lancaster, a Dallas suburb some 90 miles northeast of the shooting scene. While talking with authorities outside, he'd somehow gotten back in the truck and sped away. Authorities chased him and finally stopped him, around 9 p.m., after spiking his tires some four to six miles down the road, according to Bryant. Routh did not struggle with officers as they were arresting him, Bryant said. On Sunday morning, he was arraigned on murder charges and ordered held on $3 million bond. After that, Routh sat in a jail cell "all by himself," separated from the rest of the inmate population and watched closely by guards, according to Bryant. So who is Eddie Ray Routh? The sheriff said that Routh spent four years in the Marines. He is believed to have left the service in 2010, according to a U.S. military official who spoke on condition of anonymity hap ://cpf. cleanprint.net/cpf/cpf?action=print&type=filePrint&key=cnn&url=http%3 A%2F... 2/5/2014