Eddie Ray Routh Found Guilty of Murder in Killing of American Sniper's Chris Kyle

Chris Kyle's family will never have the ending that they wanted, but they do have justice tonight.

Eddie Ray Routh, the ex-Marine who fatally shot the Navy Seal and his friend Chad Littlefield at a shooting range in February 2013, was found guilty of murder Tuesday and immediately sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, NBC News reports. Prosecutors had not been seeking the death penalty.

The jury was out for less than three hours before returning with a verdict.

Kyle, who was credited with 160 kills in the line of duty while serving in Iraq, had been asked by Routh's mother to spend time with the troubled veteran, who had also served in Iraq and had been diagnosed with schizophrenia since leaving the Marine Corps. Routh had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, his attorneys arguing that he had been in the grip of psychosis when he killed Kyle and Littlefield at the Rough Creek Lodge and Resort's shooting range in Texas. He shot the other men with two different guns, both of which belonged to Kyle.