Jose Perdomo claimed Chapman called to Lennon

JEANNE DOWNEY, of Channel 2, CBS in New York, interviewed crime scene witness SEAN STRUB live outside the Roosevelt Hospital, where Lennon was pronounced dead (see Figures 6 & 7). Although Strub was a crime scene witness who heard the shots from nearby and followed police to the Dakota, Strub was not actually present at the Dakota entrance when

the shooting occurred. As previously stated, Strub identified Dakota doorman, Jose Perdomo, as the individual who first stated that verbal communication occurred between Chapman and Lennon, moments before the shooting, a point Chapman later denied at his sentencing hearing, and the judge accepted his explanation.

The following is a transcript of Strub’s description of what he saw and heard:

STRUB: …I kind of waited for a minute and started to walk on; a police car drove by very fast. And so I followed it on down, I thought it was something in the park, but it was at the Dakota on Seventy-Second Street and Central Park West. As I got there, there were about a half-dozen people there, and very shortly there were that many squad cars.

JD: Did you see Mr. Lennon at that time?

STRUB: Yeah, they were just bringing Lennon out of the, sort of an entryway, the driveway between the sidewalk and the courtyard, and he was limp; there were about six officers carrying him. He had a little bit of blood coming out of his mouth.

JD: And Police tell us they do have a suspect. Did you see anyone?

STRUB: Yeah, they scuffled with a guy and arrested him; he was about thirty-five, he was white, brown hair.

JD: Was he alone?

STRUB: He was the only person I saw. Yoko was there.

JD: She was?

STRUB: And they put him in a squad car and took off.

JD: Was there any kind of an exchange, do you know, between Lennon and the suspect?

STRUB: That’s what the doorman [Jose Perdomo] said that there had been some sort of altercation or argument; I heard the cops say that Lennon was hit twice in the back. I heard someone else say that the guy had apparently been hanging around all evening, and another person said he’d been there all week, and he was just kind of like waiting for him.

JD: Thank-you very much, Sean, who is a witness who at least heard the shots surrounding the shooting and apparent death of John Lennon….

It's interesting how Sean Strub's explanation was so thorough, so detailed, but virtually all of it was second-hand. In other words, whether it was intentional or accidental, he planted the seeds of the official cover story to the media just minutes after the crime had been committed, but with virtually no accountability, since he didn't see anything other than blood on Lennon's mouth.

It's quite possible Strub could have been a phony witness. For a crime of this magnitude, witnesses can be bought for a dime a dozen.

An unidentified female witness (see Figure 8) gave a slightly different account of the shooting than Strub's. The woman--whose description of the crime was broadcast on Channel 7 Eyewitness News--was at the Dakota when the shooting started, but apparently did not actually see the identity of the person who shot Lennon, she only heard the shots. Nevertheless, she witnessed events before and after the shooting, and did not mention anything about words being exchanged between Lennon and Chapman. The following is the unidentified woman's description of the shooting:

WOMAN: I heard Yoko Ono screaming moments later. They stepped out of the limousine, and they went inside of the gate there. Then all of a sudden, I heard five/six shots, and that was it.

Putting this information together with the newly

obtained death certificate, it is highly doubtful that Mark David Chapman killed anyone, least of all John Lennon.

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Date: 2015-12-11; view: 950