London
(ANI):
Despite
other
famous
people
like
U.S.
TV
talk
show
host
Johnny
Carson
and
the
actress
Elizabeth
Taylor
on
his
hit-list,
Mark
David
Chapman
killed
John
Lennon
because
he
was
more
accessible.
Mark
Chapman
admitted
he
was
hell
bent
on
killing
a
celebrity
when
he
gunned
down
the
ex-Beatle
outside
his
New
York
apartment
block
30
years
ago.
“I
had
a
hit
list
of
people
and
he
was
at
the
top
of
the
list," the
Daily
Mail
quoted
him
as
telling
the
parole
hearing.
“If
it
wasn"t
Lennon
it
would
have
been
someone
else,"
he
added.
The
cold-blooded
killer
inisisted
he
had
forgotten
earlier
claims
that
he
also
had
another
ex-Beatle,
Paul
McCartney
and
former
First
Lady
Jackie
Onassis
in
his
sights.
Asked
how
he
selected
the
names,
he
said:
“They
are
famous
–
that
was
it.
It
wasn"t
about
them
necessarily.
It
was
just
about
me."
He
said
he
killed
Lennon
because
'he
seemed
more
accessible'.
“I
found
out
what
building
he
was
at
and
went
to
that
building.
It
wasn't
quite
as
cloistered
as
some
of
the
other
people
might
have
been."
Chapman,
55
and
in
his
30th
year
in
jail,
made
it
clear
that
he
was
feeling
suicidal
-
but
used
that
rage
to
instead
kill
someone
other
than
himself.
Instead
of
taking
my
own
life,
I
took
somebody
else's,"
he
admits,
calling
it
'unfortunate'.
“I
thought
there
was
a
chance
might
get
shot.
I
wasn't
really
too
concerned
about
that,"
he
added.