Lake Oswego mayor father-in-law to slain former Navy SEAL
PORTLAND, Ore. – A former Navy SEAL and author of a best-selling book who was shot to death in Texas was the son-in-law of Lake Oswego’s mayor, Kent Studebaker.
Chris Kyle was killed, along with a friend, at a shooting range in Texas.
Studebaker and his wife are now in Texas grieving with their daughter, Taya, over the loss of her husband.
Lake Oswego City Council President Mike Kehoe said the couple left for Texas Sunday morning.
"I talked to him a little bit ago," Kehoe said Monday night. "He said he is completely overwhelmed with the kindness the people there are showing his family. They are receiving just a tremendous outpouring of help. It's overwhelming."
Kehoe said he had met Chris Kyle last summer at Studebaker's home and described him as "very likable, a humble man, a very nice guy. He was a real hero."
Former Marine Eddie Routh, 25, is accused of killing Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield on Saturday.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Routh told his sister he traded his soul for a new truck. That truck, the one he was driving when he was arrested was Kyles', according to police.
Staff members of the shooting range found Kyle's and Littlefield's bodies about two hours after the pair arrived. Both were shot multiple times.
"Apparently, Mr. Kyle works with people that are suffering from some issues that have been in the military, and this shooter is possibly one of those people that he had taken out to the range to mentor, to visit with, to help him," said Erath County sheriff’s investigator Jason Upshaw.
Investigators say Routh stole Kyle's pickup truck and drove to his sister's home where he then confessed to the murders. After a short chase, he was arrested.
His relatives hoped his time at the shooting range would be therapeutic.
Routh enlisted in the Marines after high school and served four years. He received 10 medals, including recognition for humanitarian service.
Police records show in the past five months, though, he was taken to a mental hospital twice and said he had post-traumatic stress disorder.
On Sunday night jail deputies used a stun gun on Routh. When they went into his cell, after he refused his food, they said he looked ready to assault them.
He is now on suicide watch.
Thousands of Homeless Veterans roaming the streets of Portland....THAT SAYS IT ALL ABOUT YOU FOLKS!
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And your solution is jammed-packed PRISON-LIKE Hell-Hole Central City Concern & TPI, Inc. shelters.....where HONORABLY DISCHARGED homeless veterans have to sleep inches away from Released Felons, Child Molesters, and CRACK & METH Head Street Hustlers...
If only the homeless veterans of Portland had BOOK DEALS....
Heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
Gratitude for the service of a hero.
Contempt for the trolls.
Suggestion: Letâs try to not feed the trolls. As hard as it might be to refrain from answering an outrageous, nauseating comment, remember what your mother probably told you at some time; âIgnore him. Heâs only doing it to get a reaction from you.â
I know, sometimes you just have to stand up for what is right (thank you Wombatant, Caspertoo and others.) But I wonder how long they would persist if their inanity received the attention it deserves⦠NONE.
Now back to what is important:
Sympathy to the bereaved.
Thanks for a hero, and for heroes.
Amen to that, I read that Mr. Kyle used all the proceeds of his book to help found his charity dedicated to aiding physcally and mentally wounded veterans return to productive civilian life a true hero. As to the raging troll(s) just got bounced suggesting one return to his fetid subterrainian laire so your advice to ignore them is well taken just wish the web master wound extend the same impatience with their incessant ranting
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Do you follow that church group that protests at military funerals? This man served his Country (yes that includes you) to give you freedom and yet you post negative things about him and and his friend who are dead by the hands of a man they were trying to help.
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Last I checked, trolls lived under bridges, better check, some squatter troll may be taking your spot.
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OK, one of the TV news tried to make him a southpaw by flipping the image. I know they make left hand rifles, but this pic seems to be right.
My sympathies to you and your family, Mr. Mayor. Your daughter is lucky to have a hero as a husband. May she find some peace and comfort.Â
They used to say, "Don't play with matches." Now they should say, "Guns are not toys!"
 @correct You probably think that the gun he is holding in the picture is an assault rifle because of the camouflage
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 @Playanekes  @correct Well he did bring a person with severe PTSD caused by a war to a gun range. He may not have needed any gun training, but more intelligence wouldn't have hurt.
 @Ramsesthegreat  @correct Do you think that there haven't been PTSD victims at every rifle range on any base anywhere where there are combat veterans?He took a chance to help a fellow warrior. Clearly, there was substantial risk. The civilian mindset, that sort of thing is unfathomable.To a guy who prowled the rooftops of Iraq knowing there was a $20,000 bounty on his head and traded sniper fire with Al Qaieda and Chechnyan mercenaries, a risk such as this would be trivial and worthy.Heroes don't think like others. Also, in my occupation I'm having to learn to sniff it out because combat veterans also occasionally have an unhealthy lack of fear.
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 @August100 Whether your comments are serious or not, the fact that you spent time thinking of and then posting them says a lot about your mental health. Perhaps you should go live with the Iraqi or Afghan citizens that you reference in your other post.
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 @August100 Your beloved Obama has killed more people, including children, than this great American has!
 @Beergod  @August100 He's Canadian. He even admitted that in a post on another story. However he feels it's necessary to troll on this website and spew his Anti-American hate.
 @August100  @Beergod You mad bro'?
 @August100 You must be proud using your First amendment right that many like Mr. Kyle have fought and died for.
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 @August100  @GeauxOSU So, basically what you just said is that the only reason you don't live with your rich Mommy is that she doesn't have a basement for you. I'm sure your relatives understand.Cheers.
 @Playanekes  @August100  @Jax09 Most likely both.
 @August100  @Jax09 August would you just go away? You have to be one of the most annoying commentors on this website.
His (Routh's) relatives hoped his time at the shooting range would be therapeutic? To answer that is simple: It very much was & most probably went along with the Medals he received while in the Marines; one Medal for Humanitarian Effort. Now his "Score Card" is etched within himself and "Hand in Hand he may walk equal to his Peers none unlike Kyle".
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Karma or shall we say: Live by the SWORD and Die by the Same SWORD; I would not be surprised if the relatives of those 150 individuals he OFF'ED have not felt the same pain and perhaps asked the same questions as they look to the heavens for an answer. Under rules of engagement it is best to distance the event & climb the hurdle to an end of personal solace. Writing a book on it; like some score card was fine, if that gave him closure, but publishing and selling it for gain, falls to the macabe.Â
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 @Clifford Vannatta You're a Ron Paul fan, I take it.Â
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"Karma or shall we say: Live by the SWORD and Die by the Same SWORD;"   Pick a religion to preach, s--tstain. Â
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"Under rules of engagement it is best to distance the event & climb the hurdle to an end of personal solace."
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So is that Sun Beavis or Tzu Butthead, there, general?
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You represent the entire, confused, angry left anti-war intellect in one post. Why don't you go burn a draft office?
 @Clifford Vannatta "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt