![]() All night hundreds of mourners gathered in front of the Dakota, lighting candles, weeping and chanting Beatles songs. The news spread swiftly, stunning New York and the nation. As Lennon walked into the building Chapman called "Hey, John" and is then said to have emptied his revolver into the singer's body. ![]() That evening, at 10.30, when the Lennons returned from a recording session, Chapman was waiting outside the Dakota. On Monday afternoon, when Lennon left his home, Chapman approached him asking for his autograph, and Lennon reportedly signed a record album for him. Sources said that for days he hung around the Dakota, the plush apartment building on 72nd Street and Central Park West where John Lennon lived with his wife Yoko Ono and their son Sean. The director of community relations at the hospital where he had worked for several years described him as a quiet, conscientious good worker and well liked. Chapman's wife in Honolulu refused to talk to anyone. Mr Herbert Adlerberg, his lawyer, said that Chapman had twice tried to kill himself. Judge Martin Rettinger ordered that Chapman be placed under a "suicide watch" and kept away from other patients. ![]() "We don't want another Jack Ruby," one policeman said, referring to the man who shot President Kennedy's assassin. Chapman, aged 25, was appointed a lawyer by the court, and at the lawyer's request he was transferred to hospital for a psychiatric examination after being arraigned on a charge of second degree murder.
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