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the hate from posters who couldn't last a day in the military come out to bash a dead man

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In a profile of Kyle in its April issue, Dallas-based D Magazine recounts the tale of Kyle allegedly shooting and killing two armed men who tried to rob him and steal his truck at a gas station in 2010. The article concludes that even though a gas station's surveillance camera recorded the alleged incident, no proof has surfaced that it happened. "I spent a lot of time looking for this video, talking to various police stations and everything was sealed up," profile author Michael Mooney said in an interview. "I didn't find any police reports, no coroner reports, nobody that could confirm that it happened in their jurisdiction."

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Luttrell wrote that Kyle had stopped at a gas station near Dallas and was filling up his truck when two men -- each with a pistol -- approached him and demanded his vehicle. Kyle sized them up and told them he had to reach into his truck to get the keys, Luttrell wrote. Mooney's piece in D Magazine describes what Kyle reportedly did next: "He turned around and reached under his winter coat instead, into his waistband. With his right hand, he grabbed his Colt 1911. He fired two shots under his left armpit, hitting the first man twice in the chest. Then he turned slightly and fired two more times, hitting the second man twice in the chest. Both men fell dead. "Kyle leaned on his truck and waited for the police." Mooney has written that Kyle told him the incident was true. Kyle claimed that it was caught on the gas station's surveillance video, and that when police arrived, he gave them a phone number to call, although he wouldn't say who the number belonged to. Mooney wrote that Kyle told him the officers called the number, "were very understanding" and let him go. Luttrell wrote that the incident "never made the news, since the town involved didn't want the publicity."

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But Mooney and other reporters have been unable to corroborate the story. Mooney pinpointed the approximate locale, at a gas station near Cleburne on U.S. 67 south of Dallas, but local officials up and down the highway told him they'd never heard of the incident. Mooney said he's been unable to find any police reports or any other records indicating the incident or anything similar took place.

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