Author shot dead on gun range

Best-selling author and former US Navy SEAL Chris Kyle has been shot dead along with another man on a gun range, police in Texas said.

Newspaper reports said Erath County Sheriff Tommy Bryant had confirmed that Kyle, 38, who wrote the book 'American Sniper', and a second man were found dead yesterday afternoon at Rough Creek Lodge's shooting range, west of Glen Rose, about an hour south west of Fort Worth.