Mark David Chapman
Mark David Chapman
Mark David Chapmanis an American prison inmate who murdered John Lennon on December 8, 1980. Chapman shot Lennon outside The Dakota apartment building in New York City. Chapman fired at Lennon five times, hitting him four times in the back. Chapman later remained at the crime scene reading J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye until the police arrived and arrested him. He repeatedly said that the novel was his statement...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCriminal
Date of Birth10 March 1955
CountryUnited States of America
There are not many places to go once you've killed someone like John Lennon.
I was a master at keeping my feelings in.
I just sought a way to be someone I wasn't. To be loved.
It is good to be skeptical, to ask “is this really true?,” to take nothing at face value. It is not good to blind yourself to what you can see is true, useful, or beautiful because you are afraid to trust.
It's a horrible thing to realize what you've done.
I don't know how easy that would be but I'd try just to lead an ordinary life again. Stay out of the papers.
I just shot John Lennon.
I wanted to be videotaped.
I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it.
Mr. Lennon would want me free, and I'd like to clear that up.
I willingly took John Lennon's life. What I did was despicable.
I wasn't angry the night I shot him.