“He says that he killed two guys. They went out to a shooting range. Like, he’s all crazy …”
Those recorded words from the sister of Eddie Ray Routh gave Texas authorities one of their first indications Saturday of death at an isolated shooting range.
Routh, who was arrested hours after the call, is facing murder charges in the deaths of a military sniper and another man.
Officials say Routh, a military veteran, killed the men on a gun range in a remote section of Rough Creek Lodge and Resort, which sprawls across 11,000 acres in Glen Rose, Texas, 90 minutes southwest of Dallas-Fort Worth.
The Saturday afternoon call from Routh’s sister, Laura Blevins, came from her home in Midlothian, some 30 miles southeast of Fort Worth, after Routh, she said, had come to visit her and her husband.
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But Routh set off again.
At about 8 p.m., police caught up with him near his home in Lancaster, about 15 miles south of Dallas, and took him into custody.
The motive for the killings was unclear.
Routh “is the only one that knows,” Erath County Sheriff’s Capt. Jason Upshaw told reporters on Sunday. “I don’t know that we’ll ever know.”
CNN’s Tom Watkins, Ed Lavandera, Josh Levs, Susan Candiotti, AnneClaire Stapleton, Barbara Starr, Emily Smith and Nick Valencia contributed to this report.
