ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The man who killed John Lennon outside the former Beatle’s Manhattan apartment building in 1980 has been denied parole for a 14th time, according to New York prison officials.

Mark David Chapman, 70, appeared before a parole board on Aug 27, and the decision was recently posted online by the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

Chapman fatally shot Lennon on the night of Dec. 8, 1980, as the musician and his wife, Yoko Ono, were returning to their Upper West Side apartment. Lennon had signed an autograph for Chapman on a copy of his recently released album, “Double Fantasy,” earlier that day.

Chapman was arrested within minutes, sitting near the shooting scene with a copy of J.D. Salinger’s novel, “The Catcher in the Rye.”

Lennon was 40 years o

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