On January 29, 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Spencer opened fired from her home across the street from Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego. EMC /T1_4 1 Tf 1.667 0 Td EMC EMC My dad told them that nothing was wrong with me and everything was fine, and leave us alone, she recalled. [1] Another nine got hurt during that incident. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. The number of shots fired and the number of vital hits speaks of incredibly accurate, directed shooting, and these were moving targets.. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ ( )Tj She hurt so many people and had so much to do with starting a deadly trend in America, said San Diego Country deputy district attorney Richard Sachs. Brenda's parents divorced when she was young and lived with her father. Name I had never heard of this case prior to reading this article. /Span<>> BDC After several hours, Brenda Spencer surrendered her weapon and several rounds of ammunition, and was subsequently arrested. EMC ( )Tj ( )Tj )Tj [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ The sighs floating in the air are palpable and nothing seems possible. EMC I would have to call to my mother two or three times each night to walk me around the inside of my house, just so I knew that Brenda Spencer was not inside my house, he recalled. /T1_3 1 Tf 0.419 Tw /Span<>> BDC The history of criminology has many stories about the shootings, which are arranged by schoolchildren. /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_3 1 Tf www.schoolshooters.info So, why did you commit this crime? the head parole commissioner asked. /T1_5 1 Tf She started her killing spree to liven up the day. Spencers murderous rampage might have claimed more victims had the police not obstructed her line of fire using a garbage truck. A 16-year-old girl, Brenda Spencer, who lived in a house across the street from the school, was convicted of the shootings. 0.521 Tw /Span<>> BDC 0.297 Tw /Span<>> BDC EMC (95)Tj 0.237 Tw /Span<>> BDC She had asked her father for a radio. Behind the scenes ( )Tj /T1_3 1 Tf 28. -2.118 -1.529 Td After her parents separated, she lived with her father, Wallace Spencer, in poverty. )]TJ xmp.id:9feab23b-7ab8-4f0b-91a8-e36513e1ffad /T1_5 1 Tf 0.259 Tw /Span<>> BDC EMC This livens up the day. Spencer surrendered after the negotiators promised her a Burger King Meal. EMC In 1993, she tried to prove that she committed the act, being under the drug and alcohol intoxication. EMC She often spent her time copying out the lyrics of violent punk songs. 0 Tw T* /T1_1 1 Tf /CS0 cs 0 0 0 0.5 scn "[2] Those comments were the inspiration to the song I Don't Like Mondays by The Boomtown Rats, which reached #1 in the United Kingdom in mid 1979. /Span<>> BDC Brenda Spencer is considered the mother of schoolyard shootings like Columbine and Newton. It would have been the drugs and the alcohol talking., The commissioner quoted the police negotiators report, which said she had told him, It was fun to watch the children that had red and blue ski jackets on, as they made perfect targets. The negotiator added that she told him she liked to watch them squirm around after they had been shot.. She described arriving at school and hearing shots and seeing the principal and the custodian lying dead. -0.05 Tc 0.456 Tw /Span<>> BDC 78. Even as an adult, he was gripped by an abiding fear of leaving his back exposed in restaurants he always sits with his back to the wall. Brenda would go to claim sexual abuse by her father. uuid:abfef72d-ac1c-9d47-b406-9a703c3e820b Mike to the children, ran to Mr. Wraggs aid, and the inmate shot him in the chest and killed him. In December 1978, Spencers probation officer recommended her being admitted to a mental facility, but her father refused to give permission. Brenda loved to listen to stories with a tragic end, she liked the details of the bloody murders. The commissioner asked if she remembered the police coming, and she said she did. For Christmas 1978, he gave her a Ruger 10/22 semi-automatic .22 caliber rifle with a telescopic sight and 500 rounds of ammunition. What if they got the idea from what I did?. This was a horrible event that resulted in two lives lost I have never heard of this case before this article. EMC -2.118 -1.529 Td EMC Michael Suchar, age 56, school custodian, went to the aid of Mr. Wragg and was also shot., Youre shooting people as they come to the aid of others, he said. Oddest of all, he married his daughters 17-year-old prison cellmate and brought her to live in the house from which Spencer had shot at the school. Dorothy who goes by Dot recounts Brenda as a child who was "very active, always happy, a good child, well behaved, [and] never had any problems in school" (Dower, 2016). Spencer remains in prison despite parole hearings. Occupation 0 Tc 0 Tw 8.5 0 0 8.5 336 538.5 Tm EMC /T1_3 1 Tf Brenda Spencer was born April 3rd, 1962 to her mother and father, Dorothy and Wallace Spencer. /T1_3 1 Tf 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td EMC For Christmas 1978 her father, Wallace, had given her a .22 rifle as a present. ( p. Photos of Brenda Ann Spencer, 16, who killed two adults and wounded eight children in a 1979 sniper attack on a San Diego elementary school. /T1_3 1 Tf In December, a psychiatric evaluation arranged by her probation officer recommended that Spencer be admitted to a mental hospital for depression, but her father refused to give permission. When 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer opened fire on Cleveland Elementary School in the San Diego bedroom community of San Carlos, the incident marked the first high profile mass school shooting in the United States. But that is not true of her shocking explanation for the mass shooting for it inspired Bob Geldof, lead singer of the Boomtown Rats, to write I Dont Like Mondays after he read a report of the tragedy. She is now 51 and will no doubt hear of more school shootings and ask herself if they got the idea from what she did on that long ago Monday. EMC EMC Victims She was sentenced to concurrent terms of 25 years to life in prison. Numerous tests and examinations proved that Spencer was absolutely adequate, she was not offended at school, loved at home, and she was absolutely sober at the time of the murder. The diminutive 16-year-old with bright red hair then armed herself . ( p. Principal Wragg was fatally shot in the heart. 81. )]TJ )Tj According to the testimony of neighbors and family acquaintances, parents often spoke about weapons in her presence, moreover, my father even taught her how to shoot. EMC [(\223H)23 (earing 2001,)80 (\224 pp. Trivia (3) On January 29, 1979, sixteen year old Brenda Spencer pointed her .22 caliber semi-automatic rifle that she had received as a Christmas present from her father out her bedroom window to San Diego's Grover Cleveland Elementary School across the street. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ Brenda Spencer: Sorting Out the Contradictions Spenser's relatives tried in vain to prevent the release of the hit. Many are convinced the other killers were inspired by her. \223Charles Andrew W)5 (illiams: S)23 (orting Out the Contra)]TJ Spencer later said, "I asked for a radio and he bought me a gun." The woman eventually left. They still speak of hearing the gurgle in Mr. Wragg as he lay there dying If such evil can occur in such a benign and tranquil setting, then it can happen anywhere and probably will.. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? /T1_3 1 Tf [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ Copyright 2018 en.unansea.com. ( )Tj However, according to the rules of imprisonment, the next time, giving her the right to request pardon, will come in 2019. His life and death detailed, Where is Amy Fisher now? EMC Real Life In between all the chaos, 28 year old Robert Robb, a recent graduate of the police academy, while examining Wraggs and Suchars bodies, was shot under his right shoulder blade.1 He would go on to survive though, along with the eight other children who were wounded in the incident. Discover Brenda Spencer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. I never got the impression from her that she was interested in trying to hurt kids, he said. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ He is one of many opposing her release on grounds that she remains a risk to the people of his city. /T1_3 1 Tf After firing thirty-six times, Spencer locked herself in her house for a few hours. I feel Im partially liven up the day. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ [(\223H)23 (earing 2005,)80 (\224 p. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td /Span<>> BDC /T1_3 1 Tf She did it, she said, because she didn't like Mondays. )]TJ By then, police were responding to the school shooting. [( 2016 by P)20 (eter Langman, P)5 (h.D)17.1 (. /T1_3 1 Tf Three of the worst, including the worst in American history, before the Spencer shootings in 1927 in Bath, Michigan School when a 55 year old man blew up Bath Consildated School, killing 43 (as well as his wife beforehand), in 1966 at the University of Texas, where a gunman killed 17 people and wounded 31, and in 1976 at Cal State Fullerton, where seven were killed and two were wounded involved adult male shooters. ( )Tj /Span<>> BDC _+lM.>c'WiUZ^;>\9Mi\4U2)tR^{pWZSbQUpL"1^|_eQU]'g$4J]]DSlgm40K0brD{:\w\+ O 4s(J(cPDF(iCky%5xw6??J_~s7\b\tc'^K@7C z{O"~~X` EMC The principal of the elementary school, Burton Wragg, age 53, had gone to the aid of the students and was subsequently shot himself, the commissioner said. Even if she maybe had her own problems with her father, she is just as guilty to if she only did it to make a better Monday. /T1_3 1 Tf School custodian Michael Suchar ran out in an attempt to pull the still-alive Wragg to safety. /T1_4 1 Tf We were all very upset and shocked on the way to the hospital, because no one would tell us Michaels condition. Spared the death penalty because of her age, Spencer was sentenced to two terms of 25 years to life in prison, running concurrently and with the chance of parole. And every time I had tried suicide in the previous year I had screwed it up.. This page was last changed on 2 May 2022, at 09:58. (\027)Tj Bob Geldof, then the lead singer of the Boomtown Rats, read about the incident when a news story about it came off the telex at WRAS-FM, the campus radio station at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Tom Leonard for the Daily Mail, Sleeping girls, 10 and 13, are shot as home is sprayed with 17 bullets during second drive-by in the neighborhood in just 24 hours, One person killed and two police have been shot by a gunman suspected of holding a teen hostage near Atlanta, Isabel Oakeshott receives 'menacing' message from Matt Hancock, Insane moment river of rocks falls onto Malibu Canyon in CA, Mom who lost both sons to fentanyl blasts laughing Biden, Pavement where disabled woman gestured at cyclist before fatal crash, Pro-Ukrainian drone lands on Russian spy planes exposing location, 'Buster is next!' /T1_4 1 Tf [(Langman, P)90 (. [( p. 7)30 (3. The small ceremony solidified my understanding of love and eternity, and of our ties to one another as human beings. ( )Tj -2.118 -1.529 Td The Brenda Spencer Murder Case, which was published in 2012, and is the single best source I am aware of regarding Spencer. Let alone an elementary school shooting. 0.237 Tw /Span<>> BDC /T1_4 1 Tf )]TJ The commissioner inquired how many rounds she had fired, and she said she did not recall. 0 -1.176 TD He had then blacked out as a bullet passed within an inch of his heart, exiting his chest. I was 10 years old when I was shot by Brenda Spencer.. The song never mentions her name and Geldof admitted that most fans thought it was about how having a hangover made Mondays unbearable. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td When she was 16 years old, at Christmas, her father presented her with a rifle with an optical sight. Even so, her former English teacher, David Barrett, recalled that she seemed pretty harmless and even won first prize in a photography contest run by the Humane Society. She had a parole hearing in September 2021, but she waived the hearing for one in 2022. /Span<>> BDC /T1_4 1 Tf [(Langman, P)90.1 (. /T1_3 1 Tf There was also a statement from the principals daughter. EMC -2.118 -1.529 Td EMC xmp.did:84468427512268118C14E112F7938AD6 He survived but remained terrorized. -2.118 -1.529 Td EMC (79)Tj 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td Across the street, Brenda Ann Spencer was watching them from her home, a ramshackle house filled with empty alcohol bottles and a single mattress she shared with her father. /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_1 1 Tf They later had a daughter together. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td The tragedy happened on Monday, so the killer ended her speech with the phrase: "I just do not like Mondays". She, because of the language and cultural differences in the United States, always counted on him to manage their affairs. It's just that the girl at the time had fun. ( p. Waking on the single mattress she shared with her father in the living room of their squalid suburban California home, Brenda Spencer remembers starting that day by taking her epilepsy medicine, washed down with whisky. /T1_5 1 Tf Murderer Brenda Spencer opened fire at a San Diego elementary school from a window in her home, leaving two dead and nine more shot Famously told reporter her motive was that she 'didn't like. You indicate you werent really trying to hit anybodybut you did a heck of a job of hitting a lot of people.. ( )Tj She has said she also does not recall telling a cop, It was a lot of fun seeing children shot.. 0.4 Tw /Span<>> BDC Brenda pled guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon. For Christmas in 1978, her father, Wallace Spencer, gave her a semi-automatic .22 caliber rifle. But the link with the San Diego shooting was soon spotted by Spencer herself. What is brenda spencer doing now? Brenda Spencers income source is mostly from being a successful . -2.118 -1.529 Td Spencer showed no remorse in her crime; her full explanation of her actions was "I don't like Mondays; this livens up the day. -2.118 -1.529 Td 8.5 0 0 8.5 336 571.5 Tm (90)Tj Biography adobe:docid:indd:dd4a55d2-0e77-11de-96a0-c0933d61f99d I still cant.. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ Across the road from Grover Cleveland Elementary school in San Diego, California, 16 year old Brenda Ann Spencer observed elementary children prepare for class from her bedroom window. Whether Spencer was a cold-hearted killer or a truly lost and confused soul that simply wanted an escape, it is undeniable that her horrible actions have had some frightening consequences in our modern world. /T1_2 1 Tf (71)Tj -2.118 -1.529 Td /T1_4 1 Tf Brenda Spencer explained her act by shooting at children just for the sake of her pleasure, and also for laughs. The girl was born in the USA, California, the city of San Diego, in 1962. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ A month before I was arrested, my [high school] counselor took me to see a psychiatrist, she reported. )]TJ /T1_3 1 Tf True Her target was Grover Cleveland Elementary School, just 150ft away across the road, where at around 8.30am a crowd of young children were waiting patiently for their head teacher to unlock the gates. /T1_5 1 Tf Motive ( )Tj [( pp. /T1_5 1 Tf [(dic)-20 (tions,)80 (\224 201)40 (5. (paths Among Us. EMC ( )Tj He concluded that no drugs or alcohol had been talking when she said she just didnt like Mondays. /T1_4 1 Tf The murderer was tried as an adult. After a 20-minute shooting spree, eight children and three adults had been hit, among them a police officer who was shot through the neck. She injured eight children and a police officer, and killed the principal and a custodian. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ ( )Tj 0.006 Tw 2.118 0 Td )Tj Little did they know, however, that across the street, sixteen-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer was aiming her .22 caliber semiautomatic rifle right at societys ultimate refuge, the elementary school, and its surroundings. /T1_4 1 Tf EMC (76)Tj -2.118 -1.529 Td EMC People are recognising that todays young are capable of doing anything, he said. /T1_3 1 Tf Eight schoolchildren and a policeman who ran into the shots were injured. On the morning of Monday, January 29, 1979, Spencer began shooting at children waiting for Principal Burton Wragg (age 53) to open the gates to Grover Cleveland Elementary. He recalled that his mother had just dropped him at school directly opposite Spencers home and he had been starting up the sidewalk when he saw the bodies of the principal and the custodian. 0.38 Tw /Span<>> BDC I dont know why he bought me a gun, she said. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td -2.118 -1.529 Td On January 29, 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Spencer killed two people and wounded nine when she fired on San Diego's Grover Cleveland Elementary School with a .22-caliber rifle from her family's house across the street. [(\223H)23 (earing 2001,)80 (\224 pp. ( )Tj EMC 25\22626. ( )Tj When we arrived, we found him not in the hospital room, but down in the basement, dead. (100)Tj Yet her father, who died in 2016, was by all accounts a very odd man. [(W)5 (ithout Conscience: T)-45 (he Disturbing W)40 (orld of the Psycho)]TJ It was published in July 1979 and was number one for four weeks in the United Kingdom, and was the band's biggest hit in their native Ireland. Survivors of the shooting who attended court recall a bespectacled Spencer staring at them blankly. ( )Tj 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td During the uninterrupted shooting, two teachers were killed, who saved their children at the cost of their lives. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ application/pdf -2.118 -1.529 Td Because I wanted to die, she said. [(and )0.5 (A)4.9 (dult P)10 (erpetrat)-10.1 (ors. But for the heroic efforts of a police officer who risked his life to drive a trash truck in front of her residence to block her field of fire, no doubt further children would have been shot.. 72. )]TJ She killed. EMC School Shooter /T1_4 1 Tf ( )Tj He recalled the phone call from the neighbor who said there had been a shooting at Cleveland, the frustration of not being able to get near the school because the incident was still going on, the terror in my wifes eyes, her screams of anguish at not knowing whether our girls were involved, the phone call from the hospital telling us that one of them had been wounded, looking at the bullet hole in her right elbow and the bullet burns on the inside if each thigh where a bullet had passed between her legs.. ( )Tj The shooting at school was over, and the murderer, frightened of the consequences, hid in the house. /T1_3 1 Tf Eventually, officers persuaded her to come out offering her a Burger King meal as an inducement, it was reported and found she had another 200 rounds of ammunition. EMC The perks of Golden Girl membership include a front-line pass for meals and medication and access to a specific dining room closest to the members cell. %PDF-1.7 % EMC For what was awarded the Ushakov Medal, The world's first constitution: from Sparta to the US, Platinum hair color: shades, staining, care tips, Canon IXUS 155: user reviews and main features, Conquest of Genghis Khan. This livens up the day.. 76\22677)70 (. A person can be attending school and be gunned down.. )]TJ (62)Tj On April 4, 1980, a day after her 18th birthday, she was sentenced to 25 years to life. /Span<>> BDC EMC On that day, students of Grover Cleveland's primary school were on the street, they waited while their teacher Burton Regg opened the gate to them. While at the California Institution for Women in Chino, she worked repairing electronic equipment. On January 17, 1989, almost ten years after the events at San Diego's Grover Cleveland Elementary, there was another shooting at a school named Grover Cleveland Elementary, this one in Stockton, California. The history of the shooting of schoolchildren was widely publicized and inspired by the Irish musician Bob Geldof to create the song "I do not like Mondays". 0.177 Tw /Span<>> BDC -0.03 Tc 0.537 Tw /Span<>> BDC 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ EMC Brenda Ann Spencer (born in San Diego, California on April 3, 1962) is a convicted American murderer who performed a deadly shooting spree, during which she killed two people at the Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego on January 29, 1979. Officer Robert Robb shot in the neck as he arrived but he lived. 0 Tc 0 Tw 8.5 0 0 8.5 336 453.5 Tm [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 p. EMC EMC Principal Burton Wragg heard the shooting and ran out to get the children out of harms way, and the inmate shot him in the chest and killed him. I dont remember aiming at anybody, Spencer insisted. ( )Tj EMC ( )Tj )Tj Two were killed, including the head teacher, Burton Wragg, who ran outside and was hit as he tried to help injured children, and the school caretaker, who had tried to rescue the head. ( )Tj ( p. 0.177 Tw /Span<>> BDC The daughter spoke of scattering her fathers ashes in the desert. The article kept my attention the entire time. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td She was asked if any adults had seen danger signs before the shooting. It was also revealed that she had told a police negotiator during the stand-off that she liked to watch [the children] squirm around after they had been shot and that she had targeted anyone wearing blue her favourite colour and those in featherdown-filled coats because she liked to see the feathers fly as the bullets hit them. A spokesperson for the prison told theDaily Mail: The Golden Girls program at California Institution for Women is geared toward addressing the emotional and physical needs of the older population. We found her singing as she gardened in the backyard, the son recalled. A hunting enthusiast, he had enough ammunition in the house for a small army, according to one of his daughters classmates. -2.118 -1.529 Td The issue is not owning guns, the issue is mental health. 0.358 Tw /Span<>> BDC 20 years after the shooting, Spencer made claims that her father sexually abused her. What if they got the idea from what I did?. Spencer fired three shots and hit Suchar fatally. Brenda Spencer (Brenda Ann Spencer) was born on 3 April, 1962 in San Diego, California, is a School shooting in San Diego, California (USA). EMC /T1_3 1 Tf Spencer subsequently pleaded guilty to two counts of murder. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ adobe:docid:indd:dd4a55d2-0e77-11de-96a0-c0933d61f99d 0.476 Tw /Span<>> BDC EMC I think her premature death in 1991 was at least partly the result of this traumatic experience.. Successive parole hearings have heard powerful testimony from those who say their lives were permanently scarred by Spencer. He said his wife had heard on the radio of a shooting at the school and called him at work. /Span<>> BDC 0.319 Tw /Span<>> BDC (85)Tj Justice was ruthless. And because she never had to be cross-examined in court, her facetious remark about hating Mondays remained her only explanation for the shooting. /Span<>> BDC 0.237 Tw /Span<>> BDC They cite the considerable progress she has made in rehabilitating herself in prison. /T1_3 1 Tf The other daughter had been saved from harm when a notebook with a pouch of pens stopped a bullet. She said she had been under the influence of alcohol, pot, and downers. FBI profiler Candice DeLong says doll mutilation is something that has been observed in children and teenagers who latter become killers or stalkers. Brenda Ann Spencer was the killer who started it all. -2.118 -1.529 Td /Span<>> BDC EMC ( )Tj I cannot reconcile the fact that Brenda claimed she started shooting just for the fun of it with the trauma she probably experienced in her childhood because both are terrible and inexcusable acts. 6. EMC 7)30 (3, 75. ( )Tj )]TJ Actor BT 0.355 Tw /Span<>> BDC EMC In late January 1979, Brenda Spencer killed two adults and injured eight children and one adult because of her hate for Mondays. /T1_5 1 Tf /T1_4 1 Tf Debra Sevey, Subsequent Parole Consideration Hearing of Brenda Spencer, (Capitol Electronic Reporting, 2001), 15-16. 0.013 Tc -0.013 Tw 13.929 0 Td A former student named Cam Miller attended the hearing in person and offered the last statement. /Span<>> BDC Years of life and reign of Genghis Khan. )Tj [( p. 27)70 (. /T1_5 1 Tf (61)Tj In what sense is that okay? The D.A. /Span<>> BDC The composition was released a month after the tragedy and immediately became popular. (87)Tj /T1_4 1 Tf Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old? 0 Tc 0 Tw 0.471 0 Td [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ As Spencer acknowledged at one of her parole hearings: With every school shooting, I feel Im partially responsible. Youre shooting these people as they become targets, and yet you told me that you didnt intend to hit anyone.. Brenda told police negotiators that the children were easy targets and warned that she would come out shooting.. She kept busy behind bars by learning Latin just for the fun of it, she said. 8.5 0 0 8.5 48 744.5 Tm [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ Spencer was the inspiration for the song "I Don't Like Mondays," written by Bob Geldof and Johnnie Fingers for their band the Boomtown Rats, which was released later that year. /T1_4 1 Tf A year before the shooting, school officials told her parents they believed she was a suicide risk but her father ordered them to leave his family alone. EMC ( )Tj (98)Tj 21.746 0 Td [(www)80 (.scho)-5 (olsho)-5 (ot)-10 (ers.info. /Span<>> BDC /T1_4 1 Tf Her life and career after prison. She recalled lying in the nurses office, bleeding as bullets crashed through the window. -0.024 Tw /Span<>> BDC I dont think the shooting should have been the choice at all, she could have gone to her mom if she had some problems. The perfect crime has no motive, people have paid with their lives only for the sake of fun bored girl.

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