The man who gunned down John Lennon told a parole board that he knew it was wrong to kill the musician, but that he was seeking fame.
Mark David Chapman made the comments in August to a board that denied him parole for a 12th time, citing his “selfish disregard for human life of global consequence.” Chapman, in a transcript released by state officials Monday under a freedom of information request, said the decision to kill Lennon was “my big answer to everything. I wasn’t going to be a nobody, anymore.”Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
Chapman, 67, told the board, “This was evil in my heart. I wanted to be somebody and nothing was going to stop that.” “I hurt a lot of people all over the place and if somebody wants to hate me, that’s OK, I get it,” he said at the Aug. 31 hearing.
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