Yoko Ono left shaken by intruder at the building where John Lennon was shot

Security breach: 's widow Yoko Ono was scared by a Beatles fan as she visited the building where her husband died 30 years ago

Yoko Ono called for help after running into a Beatles fan acting suspiciously inside the famous Dakota building where John Lennon was shot dead 30 years ago.
Ono was visiting the apartment to pay her respects when the Korean man happened to get into the same elevator as her.
His behaviour alarmed her so much that she notified the building's concierge who called the police immediately.
According to police, tourist Sungno Kim, 24, had entered using a service entrance before going up to the roof via a freight elevator to take pictures even though signs clearly stated 'no trespass'.
When he took the regular elevator back down again the elevator happened to open on Ono's floor and she got it.
'The elevator stopped on her floor. She got in. There was no interaction. It was purely coincidental,' a source said.
It is not clear what Kim did that caused Ono such alarm, but no doubt she would have been on high alert to potential threats given the place she was in.
Police charged Kim with trespass over the January 12 incident and he was sentenced to six hours of community service, which he has already served.
In an interview with the New York Post, the graphic design student claimed he did not intend to cause any harm and only went to the building after reading about it in a guidebook.
'I'm a Beatles fan. I went to see where John Lennon lived,' he said.

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Other residents at the building - which include Lauren Bacall and Roberta Flack - were left outraged over the security lapse.
One of them, who declined to be named, said that the guards were worried they would lose their jobs.
It was on December 8 1980 that deranged Mark Chapman shot dead Lennon outside the Dakota Building, which is located on New York's Upper West Side, as he came back from a recording session.
Since the killing it has become a stop on pilgrimages for Beatles fans and most days dozens lay flowers and pay their respects - from outside the front door.