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Mark David Chapman is an American male born on May 10, 1955, in Fort Worth. He is identified as a murderer and was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in connection with the murder of John Lennon. Chapman was sentenced to life imprisonment and is currently detained at the Attica Correctional Facility. He has resided in Fort Worth and at the correctional facility.
Chapman speaks English and has no children. His religious affiliations include Adventism and being born again, and he has a diagnosed personality disorder. He is a member of the World Alliance of YMCAs and World Vision International. Records indicate he has authored works, including a title listed as "Blair's Britain," though sources vary on his total number of works.
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955) is an American criminal who murdered John Lennon, formerly of the Beatles, outside Lennon's apartment at the Dakota, in Manhattan, on December 8, 1980.
Known for
- Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon — Self (archive audio)2020
- Salinger — Self (archive footage)2013
- Infamous Assassinations — Self (archive footage)2012
- The Beatles: The Complete Story — Self (Archive Footage)2010
- I Killed John Lennon — Self (voice)2005
- Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century1992
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- human
- Given name
- David
- Family name
- Chapman
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Fort Worth
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- born again
- Image
- Mark David Chapman, NYPD mugshot.jpg
- Number of children
- 0
- Convicted of
- voluntary manslaughter
- Significant event
- murder of John Lennon
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- date of birth
- 1955-05-10
- penalty
- life imprisonment
- name in native language
- Mark David Chapman
- medical condition
- personality disorder
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- Mark David Chapman
- significant person
- John Lennon
- member of
- World Vision International
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Encyclopedic overview
Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955) is an American man who murdered 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.
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 to model his life after its protagonist, Holden Caulfield, and planned to cite it as his manifesto. Chapman also contemplated killing other public figures, including Paul McCartney and Ronald Reagan. He had no prior criminal convictions and had recently resigned from a job as a security guard in Hawaii.
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