On the evening of 8 December 1980, English musician John Lennon, formerly of the Beatles, was shot and fatally wounded in the archway of The Dakota, his residence in New York City. His killer was Mark David Chapman, an American Beatles fan from Hawaii. Chapman said he was angered by Lennon's lifestyle and public statements, especially his much-publicized remark about the Beatles being "more popular than Jesus" and the lyrics of his later songs "God" and "Imagine". Chapman also said he was inspired by the fictional character Holden Caulfield from J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye.
El asesinato de John Lennon se produjo el lunes 8 de diciembre de 1980. Su muerte fue causada por cinco disparos, de los cuales cuatro le acertaron a Lennon, realizados por Mark David Chapman, según la justicia neoyorquina (y por el mismo Chapman), a la entrada del edificio Dakota, donde Lennon residía, cuando éste regresaba con su esposa Yoko Ono de la sucursal local de los estudios de grabación Record Plant.
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