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Jurors reached a verdict Tuesday in the trial of a former Marine on trial for killing the US Navy Seal whose story inspired blockbuster “American Sniper,” US media reported.
The verdict, reached in Erath County courthouse in Texas, was expected to be announced later Thursday.
Eddie Ray Routh, 27, could face the rest of his life behind bars if convicted of murdering famed US sniper Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield at a Texas shooting range in February 2013.
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Kyle, officially credited with killing 160 people during four military tours in Iraq, has been lionized in Clint Eastwood’s controversial movie starring Bradley Cooper as the soldier.
But Routh’s attorneys pleaded insanity and said their client was gripped by psychosis.
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