Mark David Chapman
Murderer of John Lennon (born 1955)
Mark David Chapman
Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955) is an American man who murdered British musician John Lennon in New York City on December 8, 1980. As Lennon walked into the archway of the Dakota, his apartment building on the Upper West Side, Chapman fired five shots at him from a few yards away with a Charter Arms Undercover .38 Special revolver; Lennon was hit four times from the back. He was rushed to Roosevelt Hospital and pronounced dead on arrival. Chapman remained at the scene following the shooting and made no attempt to flee or resist arrest. Instead, he sat reading The Catcher in the Rye to fulfill a personal parasocial fantasy. Raised in Decatur, Georgia, Chapman was a fan of the Beatles but later grew infuriated by Lennon's lavish lifestyle, the lyrics of "God" and "Imagine", and public statements such as his remark about the band being "more popular than Jesus". The J. D. Salinger novel The Catcher in the Rye took on great personal significance for Chapman, to the extent that he wished...
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