OUTSIDE HIS HOME IN NEW YORK CITY. HE HAD JUST GOT OUT OF A CAR,...

1980, outside his home in New York City. He had just got out of a car, and was walking to the entrance

(44) a voice called "Mr Lennon". Lennon turned and (45) five times. The killer threw his gun down, and

stood there smiling.

Lennon was (46) to hospital in a police patrol car, but it was (47) late. The killer was 25-year-old Mark

Chapman from Hawaii. Earlier the same evening he had asked Lennon for his autograph. (48) fact, he

had been hanging around outside the apartment building for several days. Chapman was a (49) of the

Beatles and Lennon, and had tried to imitated him in many ways. It is (50) that he even believed he was

John Lennon.