John Lennon’s final words revealed by concierge in new docu-series

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John Lennon have been revealed by the concierge working at the front desk of the building where the Beatles guitarist was shot at.The new Apple TV+ documentary series, John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial – which investigates Lennon’s shooting by an obsessed fan named Mark David Chapman on December 8 1980 – shared the moment in which the ‘Beautiful Boy’ singer was shot and what he said shortly after.Jay Hastings was working as a concierge on the front desk at the Dakota building on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York, where Lennon and his family lived and where he was shot outside of.

He recalled in the documentary: “He runs past me. He goes, ‘I’m shot’. He had blood coming out of his mouth. He just collapsed on the floor.”He continued: “I half rolled him to his back and took his glasses off, put them on the desk.

And Yoko was screaming, ‘Get an ambulance, get an ambulance, get an ambulance.’”Another witness featured in the documentary was Richard Peterson, a taxi driver who was sitting in his car in front of the building and watched Lennon get fatally shot.“Lennon was walking in and this kid says, ‘John Lennon.’ He was a chunky guy.

I’m looking at him through the front window of my cab. I’m looking at him shoot him. This guy just shot John Lennon,” Peterson said.He added: “I thought they were making a movie, but I didn’t see no lights or cameras or anything so I realised, ‘hey, this ain’t no movie.'”John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial is set to premiere on December 6 on Apple TV+.