Shot through the heart

TAYA Kyle — widow of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in US history — was choked up next to Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper at the Four Seasons Restaurant on Monday remembering her husband. Before the premiere of “American Sniper,” about Chris, she recalled giving him an ultimatum to come home after four tours in Iraq — but he was shot and killed in Texas by a young veteran he was trying to help. “Chris and I would sort of laugh about [military slogan] ‘God, country, family,’ ” Taya recalled. “I’d say [to him], ‘Why can’t it be God, family, country?’ because you are representing all . . . [Soldiers] say, ‘I’m fighting for you,’ and it doesn’t feel like that, because you’re gone.” She then added through tears, “Chris would not have gotten out of the military if I hadn’t said [to] . . . because I gave him an ultimatum. It was that I wanted him around — because he would have done it until it killed him.” But Kyle was instead slain near his Texas home in 2013 by a fellow vet with PTSD who’s been charged with his murder. Eastwood premiered his film starring Cooper and Sienna Miller later Monday, where Taya showed off camouflage high heels. Screenwriter Jason Hall said he originally turned in the script two days before Kyle was killed and his story took its tragic turn. “We’d been working on the script . . . I talked to him on Thursday and told him I was turning it in,” Hall said. “Chris said, ‘ Good luck, I hope you work again.’ On Saturday I got a call he was just murdered. It didn’t make sense that this guy would go through four tours, walk through hell, and be killed in his own backyard trying to help a veteran he didn’t know much about.”