John Lennon’s killer says there was ‘evil in my coronary heart’

By Associated Press

The man who gunned down John Lennon exterior his New York City house constructing in 1980 informed a parole board that he knew it was mistaken to kill the beloved former Beatle, however that he was in search of fame and had “evil in my coronary heart.”

Mark David Chapman made the feedback in August to a board that denied him parole for a twelfth time, citing his “selfish disregard for human life of global consequence.” Chapman, in a transcript launched by state officers Monday underneath a freedom of knowledge request, stated the choice to kill Lennon was “my massive reply to every part. I wasn’t going to be a no one, anymore.”

“I am not going to blame anything else or anybody else for bringing me there,” Chapman informed the board. “I knew what I was doing, and I knew it was evil, I knew it was wrong, but I wanted the fame so much that I was willing to give everything and take a human life.”

Chapman killed Lennon on the night time of Dec. 8, 1980, as he and Yoko Ono have been returning to their Upper West Side house. Earlier that day, Lennon had signed an autograph for Chapman on a replica of his just lately launched album, “Double Fantasy.”

Chapman, 67, informed the board, “This was evil in my coronary heart. I needed to be anyone and nothing was going to cease that.”

Chapman is serving a 20-years-to-life sentence at Green Haven Correctional Facility in New York’s Hudson Valley. He has repeatedly expressed regret throughout his parole hearings through the years.

“I hurt a lot of people all over the place and if somebody wants to hate me, that’s OK, I get it,” he stated on the Aug. 31 listening to.

In denying him launch, the board talked about Chapman’s motion has left “the world recovering from the void of which you created.” Chapman’s subsequent parole board look is scheduled for February 2024.

In June, John Hinckley Jr., who shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981, was free of courtroom oversight, formally concluding many years of supervision by authorized and psychological well being professionals. Hinckley had been acquitted by motive of madness.

The man who gunned down John Lennon exterior his New York City house constructing in 1980 informed a parole board that he knew it was mistaken to kill the beloved former Beatle, however that he was in search of fame and had “evil in my coronary heart.”

Mark David Chapman made the feedback in August to a board that denied him parole for a twelfth time, citing his “selfish disregard for human life of global consequence.” Chapman, in a transcript launched by state officers Monday underneath a freedom of knowledge request, stated the choice to kill Lennon was “my massive reply to every part. I wasn’t going to be a no one, anymore.”

“I am not going to blame anything else or anybody else for bringing me there,” Chapman informed the board. “I knew what I was doing, and I knew it was evil, I knew it was wrong, but I wanted the fame so much that I was willing to give everything and take a human life.”

Chapman killed Lennon on the night time of Dec. 8, 1980, as he and Yoko Ono have been returning to their Upper West Side house. Earlier that day, Lennon had signed an autograph for Chapman on a replica of his just lately launched album, “Double Fantasy.”

Chapman, 67, informed the board, “This was evil in my coronary heart. I needed to be anyone and nothing was going to cease that.”

Chapman is serving a 20-years-to-life sentence at Green Haven Correctional Facility in New York’s Hudson Valley. He has repeatedly expressed regret throughout his parole hearings through the years.

“I hurt a lot of people all over the place and if somebody wants to hate me, that’s OK, I get it,” he stated on the Aug. 31 listening to.

In denying him launch, the board talked about Chapman’s motion has left “the world recovering from the void of which you created.” Chapman’s subsequent parole board look is scheduled for February 2024.

In June, John Hinckley Jr., who shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981, was free of courtroom oversight, formally concluding many years of supervision by authorized and psychological well being professionals. Hinckley had been acquitted by motive of madness.