“Now this being said, the killer had also been diagnosed as having schizophrenia; and he had been tasked while in the army with guarding Muslim prisoners. And he had expressed sympathy to them in messages to his father.”
Everybody that goes into the military gets a psyche test. They don’t take Schizo’s. So that cannot possibly be true.
What I would like to hear is some firsthand recollections by guys who served with Routh on a daily basis.
He was diagnosed after he got out of the military, and institutionalized twice.
“Routh, a member of the Marines Corps Reserve, was first taken to a mental hospital on Sept. 2 after he threatened to kill his family and himself, according to police records in Lancaster, where Routh lives. Dallas police records show Routh was taken back to the same mental hospital in mid-January after a woman called police and said she feared for Routh’s safety.”
“A 911 recording and documents released Tuesday reveal more about the possible state of mind of the Iraq War veteran charged with gunning down a former Navy SEAL sniper and his friend at a Texas shooting range.
“Eddie Ray Routh told his sister and brother-in-law that he and the two men “were out shooting target practice and he couldn’t trust them so he killed them before they could kill him,” according to a Lancaster police search warrant affidavit.
“Shortly after the shootings, Routh’s sister told a 911 operator that her brother had come to her house and confessed to killing two people and was “psychotic,” according to a recording of the frantic call to Midlothian police.”
“Laura Blevins told police her brother seemed “out of his mind saying people were sucking his soul and that he could smell the pigs. He said he was going to get their souls before they took his,” according to the affidavit.”