Mark David Chapman is one of the most popular and richest Criminal who was born on May 10, 1955 in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. An insane fan killed Mentally unstable fan who murdered John Lennon on December 8, 1980. on December 8, 1980.
He was famously hit John Lennon four times from behind in 1980.
Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955) is an American criminal who murdered John Lennon outside Lennon’s residence at the Dakota apartment building in Manhattan on December 8, 1980. Chapman fired five shots at Lennon with a Charter Arms .38 special revolver, hitting him four times in the back. For the next few minutes, Chapman remained at the scene reading J. D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye until he was arrested by the police. He planned to cite the novel as his manifesto.
Around 5 p.m., Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono were leaving the Dakota for a recording session at Record Plant Studios. As they walked toward their limousine, Chapman asked Lennon to sign a copy of his album Double Fantasy. Amateur photographer Paul Goresh (1959–2018) was standing by and took a picture as Lennon signed the album. Chapman said in an interview that he tried to get Goresh to stay, and he asked another loitering Lennon fan to go out with him that night. He suggested that he would not have murdered Lennon that evening if the girl had accepted his invitation or if Goresh had stayed, but he probably would have tried another day.
He got married to Gloria Hiroko Abe in 1979.
