Two men on intense personal journeys that converged in a single shocking act. I took five steps and fired. Five shots. I literally held john lennons heart in my hand. It was an unthinkable crime that left millions in mourning. The murder of john lennon next. Its a chilly night at around 10 45 p. M. Police respond to a report of a shooting at the dakota. An exclusive Apartment Building on manhattans upper west side. When we drove up to the dakota, theres a man standing in the middle of the street, pointing to the archway saying thats the man doing the shooting. We got out of the car, we approached the archway on each side of it. Looked in and saw a man with his hands up. Five shots had been fired. All but one found their target. So i grab the guy around the neck. The doorman, jose, said hes the one. Hes the only one. He shot john lennon. I was totally shocked. I threw him up against the wall. I said you did what . Former Beatle John Lennon has been shot with four hollow. 38 caliber bull
Two men on intense personal journeys that converged in a single shocking act. I took five steps and fired. Five shots. I literally held john lennons heart in my hand. It was an unthinkable crime that left millions in mourning. The murder of john lennon next. Its a chilly night at around 10 45 p. M. Police respond to a report of a shooting at the dakota. An exclusive Apartment Building on manhattans upper west side. When we drove up to the dakota, theres a man standing in the middle of the street, pointing to the archway saying thats the man doing the shooting. We got out of the car, we approached the archway on each side of it. Looked in and saw a man with his hands up. Five shots had been fired. All but one found their target. So i grab the guy around the neck. The doorman, jose, said hes the one. Hes the only one. He shot john lennon. I was totally shocked. I threw him up against the wall. I said you did what . Former Beatle John Lennon has been shot with four hollow. 38 caliber bull
up five steps to the reception area, and collapses. i stood there with the gun hanging limply down on my right side, and jose the doorman came over, and he s crying. and he is grabbing my arm and shaking my arm, and he shook the gun right out of my hand and he kicked the gun across the pavement and had somebody take it away. and i was just i was stunned. i didn t know what to do. i took the catcher in the rye out of my pocket, i paced. i tried to read it, i just couldn t wait until those police got there. i was just devastated. the first police are on the scene within two minutes and take control of chapman. just after two more officers arrive, and immediately rush to aid lennon. officers frownberger and palmer carried him out to a radio car to take him to the hospital. of course, there was no ambulance on the way at that time. and my partner and i took chapman and put him in the radio car to the station house to read
training or will shortly be going through active shooting trainer. so you know the two officers that respond the first officers in the radio car that you are trained to very quickly get in to confront the active shooter. the department has either completed or is in the process of equipping every one of those squad cars with ballistic helmets and heavier duty ballistic vests. heavier than what the officers would normally wear under their shirts. secondly, there is the emergency service unit which is correctly describe as a s.w.a.t. team, but its capabilities are far beyond that. 600 members who for many years were the elite that the patrol officers would rely on. but at any given time, it might be fewer than a hundred of them throughout the whole city. during my time as commissioner, we created a third and fourth
my feeling is that he is. that he was blathering all over himself to the deputy once they got him in the radio car and also probably on the way to the jail once the detectives asked him what happened. yeah, i think he s talking about it. it s such a homicidal rage to go through to shoot all these people. in such close range, point-blank in the head. that s something in the psyche of a person, you know he s not going to be afraid to talk. i don t that he s any kind of a master criminal or carlos the jekyll terrorists. he s going to be telling them why, we just don t know, but i think they probably have a good handle on it. and, you know, we could boil down to some simple motives that we would say, well that s nothing, but to him, it s something. and, you know, something that could have percolated like you described. maybe reports earlier in his history of trouble, but why that