'American Sniper' Widow Taya Kyle Describes Day She Found Out Chris Kyle Was Dead - ABC News
When Taya Kyle first heard that her husband, famed Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, who had served four tours in Iraq, had been murdered at a Texas gun range, she kept thinking over and over that there had been some mistake. “He was a survivor and a fighter, and honestly, I didn’t know how many times he had been shot,” Taya Kyle told ABC News' Robin Roberts in an exclusive interview. The Taya Kyle Story," on a special edition of ABC News' "20/20" HERE. Chris Kyle, a highly decorated SEAL, was the most lethal sniper in U. S. history, with 160 confirmed kills. As a SEAL sniper, Kyle was sent to the worst areas with the heaviest combat and had spent years in an out of Iraq. 2, 2013, former Marine Eddie Ray Routh murdered Chris Kyle and Kyle's friend, Chad Littlefield, at the Texas hunting resort Rough Creek Lodge. In the wake of her husband's death, Taya Kyle wrote a memoir, "American Wife: Love, War, Faith and Renewal," which details their love story, how she and her family dealt with his death, and her life as a military spouse. Mark Treibly, who had played football with Chris Kyle in high school and is now an investigator with Midlothian, Texas, police, was the one who broke the news to Kyle’s wife. ’” Taya Kyle said. Source: abcnews.go.com
