An innovator that was taken down by a man who was gripped by a decaying religious belief of the masses in western perspective. Mark Chapman could not incorporate Lennon’s progressive innovative mind into the limited paradigms of western cultural religious views he was indoctrinated in as a youth and young man. And instead of seeing ahead he looked back to the times of religious persecution that still lingers strongly in this our culture.
In this man we can see the perversity of the mind when it is seen as the sole source of motivation with no regards to meditative practice and the loosening of focus on the minds fixations.
This is exactly one of the excuses you're supposed to believe. But we all perceive differently.
Check out Jose Perdomo. Operation 40. I remember seeing photos/stories of bullet holes that could not have been caused by Chapman, but of course that kind of news has vanished.