Eddie Ray Routh, the former Marine convicted of killing former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield, has been transferred to a correctional psychiatric facility near Houston.
Routh, who gunned down the "American Sniper" author and his friend in 2013 at a gun range, was transferred to the Jester IV unit in Richmond, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Earlier this month Routh, 27, had been sent to the Middleton Unit near Abilene to undergo an evaluation and psychological screening that would determine where he would begin serving out his sentence.
After jurors rejected his insanity defense, Routh was sentenced to life without parole for shooting Kyle and Littlefield at a gun range in Erath County in 2013.
An attorney for the former Marine filed an appeal and a motion for a new trial about a week after the verdict.
