Police camera footage has revealed the moment officers confronted the former US Marine accused of murdering American Sniper author Chris Kyle.
The video shows Eddie Routh being swarmed by officers next to the pick-up truck he had been driving, hours after Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield were shot dead at a Texas gun range.
Jurors saw dashcam footage showing one police car ramming the vehicle, but failing to stop him.
After a pursuit reaching speeds of up to 100mph, the pick-up - which belonged to Kyle - has mechanical problems and stops in the middle of a highway.
Officers are then filmed subduing the double murder suspect when he emerges from the truck with his hands up.
Another video presented to the jury on Thursday showed Routh sitting in the pick-up outside his home in Lancaster, near Dallas.
Filmed before the police chase, it shows officers trying to coax him into surrendering as he makes remarks such as "Anarchy has been killing the world", "I don't know if I'm going insane" and "Is this about hell walking on Earth right now?".
Routh, 27, is said to have driven to his sister's house after the shootings in February last year, telling his sister that "people were sucking his soul".
Police lieutenant Michael Smith told the court in Stephenville that Routh "told us he'd taken a couple of souls and he had more souls to take".
Routh is pleading not guilty to murder by reason of insanity, but prosecutors say he was a drug user who knew right from wrong regardless of any mental illness.
Ex-Navy SEAL Kyle, 38, had been asked by Routh's mother to help her son deal with personal problems that had seen him admitted to a psychiatric hospital. The small arms technician had served in Iraq before leaving the Marines in 2010.
Lawyers for Routh say he was under severe mental strain and believed Kyle and Littlefield, who had taken him to the rural shooting range in their efforts to give him support and friendship, planned to kill him.
The court heard Kyle and Littlefield were armed when they were shot, but their weapons apparently had not been removed from their holsters. Kyle was shot six times and Littlefield seven.
The case is drawing intense interest thanks largely to the popularity of the Oscar-nominated film based on Kyle's memoir, which details his tours of Iraq and his record as the deadliest sniper in US military history.
The film, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Bradley Cooper as Kyle, has become the highest grossing war film ever.
Routh faces life in prison without parole if convicted of capital murder.
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