【楊芬瑩╱綜合外電報導】美軍史上最厲害狙擊手、海豹特種部隊前隊員凱爾,前天於德州靶場遭槍擊身亡。凱爾曾4度被派赴伊拉克戰場,留下槍殺160名敵人的輝煌紀錄,自傳還成美國暢銷書,如今傳奇神槍手也成槍下亡魂。 38歲的凱爾(Chris Kyle)前天下午在德州伊拉斯縣一處靶場與一名鄰居同時遇害,兇嫌近距離開槍殺人後,開車逃逸,警方在命案後不久已逮捕25歲兇嫌魯斯(Eddie Ray Routh)。
Christopher Scott Kyle (April 8, 1974 – February 2, 2013) was a United States Navy SEAL and the most lethal sniper in American military history, with 160 confirmed kills (out of 255 claimed kills),[3][4] although these statistics have not yet been released by the Pentagon.[6] He was shot and killed on February 2, 2013 in Texas.
At the age of 8, Kyle's father taught him to shoot. As a youth, he trained as a bronco rider for the rodeo, which he gave up after a serious injury to his arm. He had intended to volunteer for the U.S. Marines, and was recruited by the U.S. Army, but eventually enlisted with the U.S. Navy. He served four tours in the second Iraq war, and was awarded the Bronze and Silver Stars multiple times. Iraqi insurgents named him the Devil of Ramadi and offered an increasing bounty for his head. He was shot twice, and was involved in six IED attacks. He separated from the Navy with an honorable discharge in 2009 to spend time with his family. He remained in the spotlight, and wrote an autobiography biography, American Sniper.
Early life
Born in Odessa, Texas, the son of a Sunday school teacher and a deacon,[3] Kyle's father bought his son his first gun at 8 years old, a bolt-action .30-06 Springfieldrifle, and later a shotgun, with which they hunted pheasant, quail, and deer.[3] After school, Kyle became a professional broncorodeo rider, but his profession ended abruptly when he severely injured his arm. After his arm healed, he went to a military recruiting office, interested in joining the United States Marine Corps (USMC). A Navy recruiter told him about the Navy SEALs. Kyle signed up, but was rejected because of the pins in his arm. A little while later, he received a call and he had the chance to go to BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolition SEAL school), finally joining the United States Navy in 1999.[7]
Assigned to SEAL Team 3, Sniper Element Charlie platoon within the Naval Special Warfare Command, and with over four tours of duty, Kyle served in every major battle of Operation Iraqi Freedom.[3] His first long-range kill shot was taken during the initial invasion, when he shot a woman approaching a group of Marines with a hand grenade in her hand. As ordered, he opened fire, killing the woman before she could attack.[8]
For his deadly track record as a marksman during his deployment to Ramadi, the insurgents named him Shaitan Ar-Ramadi (English: The Devil of Ramadi), and put a $20,000 bounty on his head that was later increased to $80,000.[3][4][8]
In 2008, outside Sadr City, he made his longest successful shot, after he spotted an insurgent with a rocket launcher near a U.S. Army convoy at a range of 2,100 yards (1.9 km). He fired a shot from his Lapua Magnum PGM .338 rifle, killing the insurgent as told in his book American Sniper. During four tours of duty in Iraq, Kyle was shot twice and caught up in six separate IED explosions.[4][8]
Kyle never received the Purple Heart, even though he had been wounded, as he refused to allow the paperwork to be submitted as this would have caused automatic removal from his unit for a minimum period of time.
Kyle left the U.S. Navy in 2009,[4][9] and moved to Midlothian, Texas with his wife, Taya, and two children. He ran Craft International, which provides military, law enforcement, and civilian training, as well as private security and protection until his death.[4][10] In 2012, Harper Collins released Kyle's autobiographical book American Sniper.[9][11] Kyle also paired with FITCO Cares Foundation, a non-profit organization which created the Heroes Project to provide free in-home fitness equipment, individualized programs, personal training, and life-coaching to in-need veterans with disabilities, Gold Star families, or those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.[12]
On August 13, 2012, Kyle appeared on the reality television show Stars Earn Stripes, which features celebrities pairing up with a special operations or law enforcement professional who will train them in weapons and combat tactics. Kyle was teamed with actor Dean Cain.[13]
While promoting his book American Sniper on the Opie and Anthony Radio Show on January 4, 2012, Kyle claimed to have knocked down former Governor of MinnesotaJesse Ventura, who was also a member of the Underwater Demolition Teams, with a punch to the face at a bar in Coronado, California in 2006 after Ventura allegedly “badmouthed the troops” and said that the SEALs "deserved to lose a few guys." The alleged incident occurred during a wake for Michael A. Monsoor, a Navy SEAL who was killed in action in Iraq the same year. Kyle also wrote about the alleged incident in his book but did not mention Ventura by name.[14] Ventura released a statement on his Facebook page calling Kyle's claims completely false, denying he said anything derogatory about the troops, and also denying Kyle’s claim of punching him in the face or even having ever met Kyle.[15] Kyle claimed two Navy SEALs had come forward with the story but no police report is known to exist.[16] At the time of Kyle's death, Ventura was suing Kyle for defamation in court.[17]
Kyle and a companion, Chad Littlefield, were killed on Saturday, February 2, 2013, at the Rough Creek Lodge shooting range in Erath County, Texas.[18] Local police captured the suspect, Eddie Ray Routh, after a short freeway chase, which ended when Routh, who had left the scene of the shootings in Kyle's Ford F-350 truck, crashed into a police cruiser. The suspect was arrested just before 9:00 p.m. the same day in Lancaster, Texas.[19] Erath County sheriffs said the motive for the killing was unclear [20].
Routh, 25, of Lancaster, Texas, was arraigned Saturday, February 2nd, 2013, on two counts of capital murder, according to Sgt. Lonny Haschel of the Texas Department of Public Safety. He was taken to the Erath County Jail for holding under a $3 million bond.[21] A friend of Kyle said the suspect was a veteran struggling with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).[22] Kyle and Littlefield had purportedly taken Routh to the gun range in an effort to help him with his PTSD.[23] Authorities say Routh used a semi-automatic handgun to kill the two men.[24]
8 Suì, kǎi ěr de fùqīn jiào tā pāishè. Zuòwéi yīgè qīngnián, tā xùnliànle zuòwéi yīgè yěmǎ de niúzǎi qíshǒu, tā fàngqìle yánzhòng de shāngbìng, tā de shǒubì hòu. Tā dǎsuàn zhìyuàn zhě wéi měiguó dì hǎijūn lù zhàn duì, bìng shòupìn yú měiguó jūnduì, dàn zuìzhōng yǔ měiguó hǎijūn zhēng. Tā céng dānrèn 4 gè lǚxíng tuán zài dì èr cì yīlākè zhànzhēng, bìng duō cì huòdéle tóng hé yín xīng. Yīlākè wǔzhuāng fēnzǐ gěi tā qǔ míng wèi lā mǎ dí èmó, tā de tóu, bìng tígōngle yuè lái yuè duō de shǎngjīn. Tā liánxù liǎng cì tóulán mìngzhòng, bìng cānyù zài 6 gè IED gōngjí. Tā cóng hǎijūn zài 2009 nián guāngróng tuìyì, huā shíjiān yǔ tā de jiārén fēnkāi. Tā réngrán zài jùguāngdēng xià, bìng xiěle yī běn zìzhuàn zhuànjì, měiguó jū jí shǒu.
Zǎoqí de shēnghuó
Chūshēng yú měiguó dé kè sà sī zhōu áo dé sà, yīgè zhǔ rì xué lǎoshī, érzi hé zhíshì,[3] kǎi ěr de fùqīn gěi érzi mǎile tā de dì yī pào zài 8 suì nà nián, yīgè luóshuān xíngdòng.30-06 Sī pǔ lín fēi'ěrdé bùqiāng, lièqiāng, yǔ Tāmen liè shā shān jī, ānchún, hé lù.[3] Fàngxué hòu, kǎi ěr chéngwéi yīgè zhuānyè de yěmǎ qí shù biǎoyǎn chēshǒu, dàn tā de zhíyè shí, tā túrán jiéshùle tā de shǒubì yánzhòng shòushāng. Tā de shǒubì quányù hòu, tā qùle yīgè zhēngbīng bàngōngshì, yǒu xìngqù cānjiā měiguó dì hǎijūn lù zhàn duì (USMC). Měiguó hǎijūn de zhāopìn rényuán gàosu tā, guānyú hǎibào tújí duì de. Kǎi ěr qiānshǔle, dàn bèi jùjué, yīnwèi zài tā de shǒubì shàng de zhēnjiǎo. Guòle yīhuǐ'er, tā jiē dàole yīgè diànhuà, tā yǒu jīhuì qù BUD/ S(jīběn shuǐ xià bàopò hǎibào xuéxiào), zhōngyú yú 1999 nián jiārù měiguó hǎijūn.[7]
[Biānjí] jūnshì fúwù [Biānjí] yīlākè zhànzhēng Fēnpèi dào hǎibào tújí duì 3, jū jí shǒuyuán chálǐ pái zài hǎijūn tèzhǒng zuòzhàn sīlìng bù, chāoguò sì yóulǎn de zérèn, kǎi ěr céng zài “yīlākè zìyóu xíngdòng” de měi yīgè zhòngdà zhànyì.[3] Tā de dì yī gè yuǎnchéng shā de pāishè, zài Zuìchū de rùqīn, dāng tā dǎchūle jiējìn de yī zǔ hǎijūn lù zhàn duìyuán, yī méi shǒuliúdàn zài tā de shǒu de nǚrén. Dìnggòu de, tā kāihuǒ, shā sǐ de nǚrén, tā hái méi láidejí gōngjí.[8]
Duìyú tā de zhìmìng de gēnzōng jìlù zuòwéi yīgè shèshǒu zài tā de bùshǔ, yǐ lā mǎ dí, pànluàn fèn zi mìngmíng tā sādàn AR-lā mǎ dí (yīngyǔ: Móguǐ de lā mǎ dí), bìng bǎ yīgè 20000 měiyuán shǎngjīn zài tā de tóushàng, shì hòulái zēngjiā zhì 80,000 yuán.[3] [ 4] [8]
2008 Nián, sà dé'ěr chéng yǐwài, tā zuòle tā de chénggōng pāishè shíjiān zuìzhǎng, pànluàn hòu, tā fāxiànle yīgè yòng huǒjiàn fāshè qì fùjìn de yīgè měijūn chēduì zài 2,100 mǎ (1.9 Gōnglǐ) de fànwéi. Tā cóng tā de lā pǔ ā wànnéng de PGM.338 Bùqiāng kāile yī qiāng, gàosu tā de shū měiguó jū jí shǒu shā sǐ pànluàn fèn zi. [4] [8] Zài 4 gè lǚxíng tuán zài yīlākè de zérèn, kǎi ěr liánxù liǎng cì tóulán mìngzhòng, xiànrùle 6 gè dúlì de IED bàozhà.
Kǎi ěr cónglái méiyǒu shōu dàoguò zǐ xīn xūnzhāng, jíshǐ tā shòushāngle, yīnwèi tā jùjué tíjiāo de wénshū gōngzuò, yīnwèi zhè jiāng dǎozhì zìdòng shānchú cóng tā de dānwèi de zuìxiǎo shíjiān.
[Biānjí] hòulái de gōngzuò Kǎi ěr líkāile měiguó hǎijūn zài 2009 nián,[4] [9] hé tā de qīzi, tǎ yà hé liǎng gè háizi yíjū dào dekèsàsī zhōu zhōng luò xī ān jùn,. Tā pǎole gōngyì guójì, tā tígōngle jūnshì, zhífǎ, hé wénzhí rényuán de péixùn, yǐjí sīrén de ānquán hé bǎohù, zhídào tā qùshì.[4] [10] Zài 2012 nián, hā pò kēlínsī fābù Kyle de zìzhuàn tǐ shū měiguó jū jí shǒu.[9] [11 Kǎi ěr hái pèibèile FITCO guān'ài jījīn huì, yīgè fēi yínglì xìng zǔzhī, chuàngzàole yīngxióng de xiàngmù tígōng miǎnfèi de jiāyòng jiànshēn qìcái de, gèxìng huà de fāng'àn, rényuán péixùn, hé shēnghuó jiàoliàn xūyào de tuìwǔ jūnrén, cánjí rénshì, jīnxīng jiātíng, Huò nàxiē huàn yǒu chuāngshāng hòu yìng jī zhàng'ài [12].