... Chapman emptied his .38, consisting of five bullets, into his back. Lennon cried, "I'm shot, I'm shot,"" then he fell to the ground. The Dakota doorman screamed at Chapman, "Do you know what you've just done?- Chapman retorted, "I just shot John Lennon."" He dropped his handgun and sat down to read Catcher in the Rye. John was rushed to near-by St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, but after ... the bullets crushed his lung and he had lost eighty percent of his blood, he was pronounced dead on arrival. "Within an hour after ... ...

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