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Even though it's been 30 years since Mark David Chapman walked up to John Lennon and fatally shot the music legend in New York City, it's undoubtedly still hard for many fans to understand why the troubled young man did it.
During a parole board hearing two years ago, Chapman expressed remorse over the Dec. 8, 1980, killing, saying, "That 25-year-old man, I don't think he appreciated the life he was taking, that this was a human being," according to the New York Daily News.
Here's more from the Daily News, where Chapman talks about Lennon, fame and murder:
Chapman, who's serving a sentence of 20 years to life in prison in New York, was denied parole for a sixth time in September. Yoko Ono, Lennon's widow, opposed Chapman's most recent bid for freedom, saying he still represents a potential threat."I had been going through some problems and was very confused ... and was feeling like a big nothing and a nobody," he said.
He had taken out some books on Lennon from the library and felt he was a "phony" for singing of love while living in a ritzy building.
"It was more about me and not him, I was probably mad at myself for my failures," he said.
The last straw was when he saw Lennon's face on the Sgt. Pepper's album cover.
"I just saw his face and it seemed like it all came together, the solution to my problem of being confused and feeling like a nobody," he said. "And I said, 'Wouldn't it be something if I killed this individual? I would become famous, I would be something other than a nobody.' And that was my reasoning at the time."
Here's a brief clip of Chapman talking to ABC's Barbara Walters about the crime:
And here's Ono discussing how Lennon's death still affects her:
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