'He wasn't prepared for what he was doing out there,' his father told London's Daily Mail for an article published last month. Routh talked of being forbidden by an officer to give his rations to a starving boy - and of things much worse. They found a country in ruins, with about a quarter million dead - many of them stacked in rotting piles along the muddy roads. In January 2010, Routh was attached to the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit as part of Operation Unified Response, sent to the island nation. 'How would you feel if I shot a kid?' they said he asked.īut family and friends say Routh was more disturbed by what he saw during a later deployment - in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. You kill them before they can kill you.''Ī few months later, his parents told the magazine, he called home and suggested that something bad had happened while he was out on patrol. 'Our response was, of course, 'Eddie, this is a war. 'He said, 'Dad, how are you going to feel about me if I have to kill somebody?'' his mother, Jodi Routh, told a writer from Men's Health magazine before a judge imposed a gag order in the case. In a conversation with his parents shortly before deploying, he reportedly expressed concerns about having to use his weapon. By September 2007, he was in the Middle East.

Not long after graduation, Routh - also 6-2, but about 50 pounds lighter than Kyle - was off to boot camp in California. He will be buried Tuesday at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin on Tuesday.'I want to be one of the few and the proud,' he told the photographer. Kyle’s memorial service is slated for Monday at Cowboys Stadium. at the First Baptist Church of Midlothian, followed by burial at Mount Zion cemetery. Littlefield’s funeral is set for Friday, Feb. “His family and friends would tell you he was a `rock,’ always there when you needed him, dependable and responsible, ready to grab you in his arms to let you know he loved you and everything would be all right.” “Chad would tell you he was a regular guy just taking care of business, and was happiest spending time with his family and friends,” the family’s obituary says. He is survived by his wife, Leanne, a Midlothian middle-school assistant principal, and their daughter, Morgan. Littlefield was employed by DeSoto’s Eagle Labs, Inc., an oil-services firm, as the facilities and logistics manager. 11, 1977, and graduated from DeSoto High School in the Dallas suburb of DeSoto in 1995. “But, Chad was a Christian and spoke of his Savior often, so Jesus was there waiting for him and took him to the mansion He had prepared for him.”Ī proud lifelong resident of Texas, Littlefield was born in Dallas on Feb. “As he tried to help another, his life was taken from him suddenly and unexpectedly,” reads the obituary his family posted on the Midlothian Funeral Home’s website. The two had taken Routh to the shooting range in an effort to help smooth the 25-year old Marine veteran’s rocky path back into civilian society. Only by chance – he was Kyle’s neighbor and workout buddy – did he find himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. So this is a little bit about the third man in the tragedy. His is a name that has been mentioned, only in passing, ever since Eddie Ray Routh allegedly gunned down him and Kyle at the Rough Creek Lodge and Resort in Glen Rose. Littlefield was killed, along with ex-Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, allegedly by an Iraq war veteran at a shooting range last Saturday south of Fort Worth. Follow Hutson Littlefield would have turned 36 on Monday.

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