Bardo carried a red paperback copy of '' The Catcher in the Rye '' when he murdered Schaeffer , which he tossed onto the roof of a building as he fled . He insisted that it was coincidental and that he was not emulating Mark David Chapman , who had also carried a copy with him when he shot and killed John Lennon on December 8 , 1980
shot and killed
Murder of John Lennon
Robert John Bardo