Wallace Spencer (father)Dot Spencer (mother)Teresa Spencer (sister)Scott Spencer (brother)Unnamed half-sister )Tj Justice was ruthless. -2.118 -1.529 Td /T1_5 1 Tf ( )Tj (MD)Tj Years of life and reign of Genghis Khan. 0.007 Tc -0.126 Tw /Span<>> BDC /Span<>> BDC Or as Wilfred Suchar, son of the murdered school caretaker, put it at a parole hearing: My question is, will there be another boring Monday for her?. The composition was released a month after the tragedy and immediately became popular. )]TJ /T1_5 1 Tf \223T)70 (.J. -2.118 -1.529 Td We have estimated ( p. ( )Tj )]TJ Mr McGlinn says such a troubled young girl should never have been allowed near guns and believes her claims that she was hallucinating under the influence of drugs and alchohol. He liked to keep appearances up, that everything was fine in the house, Spencer now said. The shooting has inspired a song by the Boomtown Rats called I Dont Like Mondays, and has also gained other media coverage through a documentary.8 Her action went down in history as the first high profile school shooting and has become a vanguard to many future, unimaginable school situations and violent outbreaks. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td /T1_3 1 Tf [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ At least one of Spencers victims agrees. He ended by saying on behalf of his deceased parents and the surviving members of the family that they opposed parole for Spencer. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Brenda Spencer - Biography - IMDb An epidemic of gun crime has shocked America, particularly with school massacres at Columbine (in 1999, 13 dead) and Sandy Hook (in 2012, 26 dead). 0 Tc 0 Tw 8.4751 0 0 8.5 561.6812 581.5 Tm EMC 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td As of December2015, she has been unsuccessful at four parole board hearings. She didnt realise she was shooting at schoolchildren, mistaking them for birds. -2.118 -1.529 Td -0.001 Tc -0.05 Tw 2.124 0 Td /T1_5 1 Tf ( )Tj A 16-year-old girl, Brenda Spencer, who lived in a house across the street from the school, was convicted of the shootings. During the six-hour stand-off, a newspaper reporter rang up her neighbours to try to get eyewitness testimony. /T1_5 1 Tf Children were going to school as the birds chirped. (67)Tj The reasons for such actions are different: alcohol, drugs, insults from classmates or outrages of teachers, problems with the psyche, disturbed peace of mind. /Span<>> BDC /Span<>> BDC The head custodian, Michael Suchar, known as Mr. [(\223H)23 (earing 2001,)80 (\224 pp. 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.. (69)Tj It also be projection, a signal that she's being abused at home by someone. These are the other shootings reported on: the Columbine High School shooting, the shootings at Simon's Rock College, the Bethel Regional High School shooting, and the Pearl High School shooting. The author also focused, not just on the shooting itself, but also the aftermath that centered on Brenda Spencer. ( )Tj 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td Brenda proceeded to wound seven more children with stunning accuracy. Copyright 2018 en.unansea.com. The school was closed in 1983, along with a dozen other schools around the city, due to declining enrollment. 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). /T1_4 1 Tf No school or kids deserve to be shot up. ( )Tj Brenda Spencer She indulged in drugs and often skipped classes at school. Grover Cleveland Elementary School, San Diego, CA. 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. At the time, mass shootings were rare in America, although there had been occasional gun attacks on school premises. (74)Tj )]TJ Cam [Charles] Miller was seven when she shot him in the back. 42. Spencer, who was charged in court as an adult, pleaded guilty in 1980 to two counts of murder. 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. EMC The song in 1979 was in the lead in the British charts for four weeks in a row. A nine-year-old student, Cam Miller, was struck in the back with a bullet that exited through his chest without hitting any internal organs. [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 p. [( p. 207)70 (. It was completely uncontrollable., There was also a statement by a parent, Francis Stile, whose two daughters attended the school. 89. /T1_3 1 Tf She killed. In her 2001 hearing, Spencer first claimed that her father had been subjecting her to beatings and sexual abuse, but he said the allegations were not true. The victims are not only those killed, but the survivors who live the tragedy for the rest of their lives.. Status Thirty years later, Miller beheld her in another proceeding and asked the board not to parole her. /Span<>> BDC /T1_3 1 Tf uuid:abfef72d-ac1c-9d47-b406-9a703c3e820b And because she never had to be cross-examined in court, her facetious remark about hating Mondays remained her only explanation for the shooting. Murdaugh is heckled as he leaves court, Ken Bruce finishes his 30-year tenure as host of BBC Radio 2, Ukrainian soldier takes out five tanks with Javelin missiles, Family of a 10-month-old baby filmed vaping open up, Missing hiker buried under snow forces arm out to wave to helicopter, Hershey's Canada releases HER for SHE bars featuring a trans activist, Moment teenager crashes into back of lorry after 100mph police race. A)40 (vailable at )]TJ )]TJ ( )Tj A person can be attending school and be gunned down.. Her father left home for work around 7 oclock in the morning. /T1_3 1 Tf 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td I was 9 years old when I was shot, he began. The woman eventually left. The girl was born in the USA, California, the city of San Diego, in 1962. /T1_4 1 Tf The 1999 book Babyface Killers: Horrifying True Stories of America's Youngest Murderers, authored by Clifford L. Linedecker dedicates the book's prologue to Spencer and refers to her crimes in multiple chapters. As of April2020, she remains in prison and is housed at the California Institution for Women in Chino. The Lifetime Movies, series Killer Kids released an episode "Deadly Compulsion" depicting Spencer's crimes, first air date: September 3, 2014. EMC I feel Im partially liven up the day. 0 Tc 0 Tw 0.471 0 Td 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. EMC Wallace Spencer got married to a woman younger than Spencer and had a daughter. I had never heard of this incident but what shocks me the most about this article was how young she was. /T1_4 1 Tf He is one of many opposing her release on grounds that she remains a risk to the people of his city. (82)Tj EMC 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 8.5 0 0 8.5 336 571.5 Tm )Tj Only in San Diego, the city where the tragedy happened to spare the feelings of local residents, the song was banned for several years. /Span<>> BDC Not long after Brenda Spencer went to jail, her father married his daughter's teenage cellmate. The police, now aware of where the shots were coming from, were able evacuate the children and obstruct Spencers line of sight while trying to negotiate with her. 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.. Neighbors claimed Spencer had . EMC By chance, one of the numbers he called was answered by Spencer herself. Brenda Spencer | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers Let alone an elementary school shooting. /Span<>> BDC -2.118 -1.529 Td /Span<>> BDC Thrill Killers. [( pp. He had died trying to help the children and Principal Wragg, killed by Ms. Spencer trying to liven up her Monday., She was lonely and scared, and became more and more depressed, he said. Lane: F)10 (urther Re\024ec)-20 (tions,)80 (\224 2016. ( )Tj [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ [( N)23 (ew Y)60 (ork: G)30 (uilford, 1999, p. She did it, she said, because she didn't like Mondays. EMC I never got the impression from her that she was interested in trying to hurt kids, he said. ( )Tj )Tj 0.237 Tw /Span<>> BDC /T1_3 1 Tf The diminutive 16-year-old with bright red hair then armed herself with the .22 rifle and telescopic sight that her father, Wally, had given her for Christmas and started firing shots from a window. /T1_4 1 Tf In what sense is that okay? Her ashes are to be buried at a later date. 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. )Tj ( p. )]TJ /T1_4 1 Tf A few weeks ago, she marked her 40th anniversary in prison after successive parole applications had been refused. /Span<>> BDC Going to school should be a safe place and not a place to fear. After several hours, Brenda Spencer surrendered her weapon and several rounds of ammunition, and was subsequently arrested. /T1_4 1 Tf (62)Tj Basically, what shes telling this board are a series of untruths, the representative concluded. ( )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. Copyright 2016 by Peter Langman, Ph.D. 84. 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. )Tj /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_4 1 Tf [(C)11 (opyright )]TJ [(www)80 (.scho)-5 (olsho)-5 (ot)-10 (ers.info. 0.02 Tw /Span<>> BDC On the other hand, I also did not know that this event was listed as the first high profile school shooting. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ Are you pretty good with a rifle? he asked. At her first hearing, Spencer said she had hoped police would shoot her and that she had been a user of alcohol and drugs at the time of the crime, although the results of drug tests done when she was taken into custody were negative. /T1_3 1 Tf 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. )Tj 0.356 Tw /Span<>> BDC According to court documents she would open fire from her home aiming at young children waiting to get into the school. The fact that school shootings are more normalized in 2021 than anything is sad. 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. (78)Tj 85. Spencer told police negotiators she had shot the children and staff because they made such easy targets. I was just set on committing suicide., I am sorry you had to go through everything you went through, but what Im trying to do is find out why you would open fire and kill two people and hurt so many others, the commissioner said. 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. /Span<>> BDC /T1_3 1 Tf (97)Tj As she continued shooting, SWAT officers surrounded the house and evacuated the school from the rear. (157 cm) and had bright red hair. /Span<>> BDC Pathology Eight schoolchildren and a policeman who ran into the shots were injured. 0.355 Tw /Span<>> BDC Spencer was sentenced to only 25 years to life, despite the cruelty of her crime. 2016-02-11T19:23:05-05:00 )Tj /T1_4 1 Tf At another hearing, she claimed she had opened fire because she wanted police to kill her. /Span<>> BDC Nine counts of attempted murder. EMC This livens up the day.. 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". Mass Murderer Up For Parole 40 Years After She Opened Fire On School To Mary Rintoul aged nine when she was shot in the attack has mixed feelings about letting her out. When asked why she said "I hate Mondays" prompting the Boomtown Rats hit song. However, I find their reasons to be interesting to learn about. 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. The total number of shots from the murderer's window was 36. !4!r`8} @~Ohb&54"bpW8I> Now, however, Spencers freedom may be in sight. /T1_5 1 Tf She had asked her father for a radio. ( )Tj /T1_5 1 Tf (77)Tj EMC California has some of the most stringent gun control laws in the country and yet still there is gun violence, like the school shooting described in this article. /T1_4 1 Tf She answered a reporters question on why she fired the gun, by saying I dont like Mondays. Brenda Spencer (Brenda Ann Spencer) was born on 3 April, 1962 in San Diego, California, is a School shooting in San Diego, California (USA). The shooting was already on the news before Brenda stopped shooting. /T1_4 1 Tf EMC People have told me that I look like him, act like him, that my kids are the spitting image of him, she said. Grover Cleveland Elementary School, San Diego, CA (65)Tj -2.118 -1.529 Td The ruthless shooter continued shooting until the police blocked the school entrance by moving a garbage truck in front of it. The Grover Cleveland Elementary School shooting took place on January 29, 1979, at a public elementary school in San Diego, California, United States. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td *JHRD%G'6F':,2CSIxV+KH77XdKtdJ'Z^NUhd~/Hy6D+)r( E(jJQn456Tj EoS)5D):IBgdVVWN/#/Cq:~(x{:xhaeB+:?b#{?LSAOk;HDFfMF>479.%1$kvgY 0.259 Tw /Span<>> BDC ( )Tj 0.238 Tw /Span<>> BDC EMC Mondays always carry with them a negative connotation and contain components such as depression, fatigue, and anguish. /T1_3 1 Tf /Span<>> BDC 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. A model prisoner, she wants to be a forklift truck driver if she ever regains her freedom. 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. He was then a part of the Allied occupying forces in northern Germany. A 16-year-old girl, Brenda Ann Spencer (born April 3, 1962), who lived in a house across the street from the school, was convicted of the shootings. I think that article such as these, that have to do with people like this that kill or shoot up schools filled with little kids are so heartbreaking to read. Most can agree with former FBI profiler Candice DeLong's remarks that Brenda's father bears responsibility for what happened that day by buying her the gun. EMC /T1_5 1 Tf Defence experts from Yale University who examined her said she had been in a disassociated state, he said. Today, she is 56 and still behind bars at the California Institution for Women. [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 p. 27)70 (. /T1_4 1 Tf )]TJ ET And she began to fire. The murderer was tried as an adult. What if they got the idea from what I did?. EMC Brenda Spencer is considered the mother of schoolyard shootings like Columbine and Newton. /T1_3 1 Tf )]TJ This article brings to light the issue of gun control. She said she had been under the influence of alcohol, pot, and downers. ( p. 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. Classmates of the murderer after the shooting of schoolchildren recalled that Brenda Spencer dreamed of an act after which they would talk about her on television. /T1_3 1 Tf She grew up relatively poor and spent most of her early life with her father, Wallace Spencer, with whom she had a turbulent relationship. /T1_3 1 Tf My name is Crystal Hardy, one began. /Span<>> BDC /T1_4 1 Tf /Span<>> BDC (81)Tj From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, "School Shooter Brenda Spencer Denied Parole", "Urban Legends Reference Pages: Music (I Don't Like Mondays)", https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brenda_Ann_Spencer&oldid=8201899, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. 58. (90)Tj 22. During a 2009 parole hearing, her most recent, she insisted that she had not intended to shoot anybody. On January 29, 1979, Cam Miller, a 9-year-old student who was waiting for the principal to open the gate to Grover Cleveland Elementary, was injured by a gunshot, along with eight other innocent children. For two murders and an attack with firearms, she was sentenced to life imprisonment. /T1_4 1 Tf Further casualties were avoided only because the police obstructed her line of fire by moving a garbage truck in front of her house. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ Adobe InDesign CC 2015 (Macintosh) The Creepiest Teen Murderer Brenda Ann Spencer - Medium 12.894 0 Td Full name is Brenda Ann Spencer. ( )Tj However, lawyer Michael McGlinn, who defended Spencer at her trial, told me he continues to believe she will never reoffend. (\251)Tj EMC ( )Tj People who knew the girl, claim that in her biography there was a theft. He showed me a neatly hand-written letter she sent him in 2015 in which she wrote that she appreciated what I did was horrible so I dont really complain about the amount of time Ive done. A lot of kids laughing and doing their thing? the commissioner asked. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ (89)Tj ( p. [1] Another nine got hurt during that incident. 0 Tc 0 Tw 0.471 0 Td 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td Surprisingly, the suspect was identified as a 16-year-old girl, Brenda Ann Spencer, who was living across the street from Grover Cleveland Elementary. The First Modern School Shooter Feels Responsible for the Rest 7)30 (3, 75. The representative further reported that blood and urine samples taken after Spencers arrest tested clean. I walked into court and saw this monster glaring at me, he remembered. /Span<>> BDC [(H)23 (are, )]TJ T* Early Life Brenda's parents divorced when she was young and lived with her father. Only after this time, she voluntarily surrendered to the hands of justice. 72. -2.118 -1.529 Td EMC From 2005 to 2017, it housed the Magnolia Science Academy, a public charter middle school serving students in grades 68. 0.013 Tc -0.013 Tw 13.929 0 Td [(W)5 (ithout Conscience,)]TJ 0.237 Tw /Span<>> BDC She often spent her time copying out the lyrics of violent punk songs. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td -2.118 -1.529 Td She later also spoke with police negotiators, telling them those she had shot made easy targets, and that she was going to "come out shooting." She said she did it for the fun of it and that just gave me chills. In the meantime, she will sit as inmate W14944 in the California Womens Institution, seeming to see no irony in having used heated metal to brand the words Courage and Pride across her chest. /Span<>> BDC As Spencer acknowledged at one of her parole hearings: With every school shooting, I feel Im partially responsible. The search showed that there was a bank of beer in the house, there was a bottle of whiskey, but the policemen who detained the criminal stated that she was sober. /T1_3 1 Tf EMC She described arriving at school and hearing shots and seeing the principal and the custodian lying dead. My dad told them that nothing was wrong with me and everything was fine, and leave us alone, she recalled. /T1_5 1 Tf 8+ Legendary Brenda Spencer Facts - Be Surprised Michael Suchar, the schools custodian, ran outside with a blanket in order to cover Wragg and keep him from going into shock, but he quickly became the second victim of Spencers shooting and lost his life. Her behaviour including telling a friend she wanted to kill someone, probably a police officer became increasingly disturbing. The likelihood of a successful parole hearing is slim at best. 1.647 0 Td 29.647 36.706 Td /T1_5 1 Tf EMC [(and )0.5 (A)4.9 (dult P)10 (erpetrat)-10.1 (ors. EMC What if they got the idea from what I did?. /T1_4 1 Tf A plaque and flagpole were erected at Cleveland Elementary in memory of the shooting victims. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ The next time (2001), she began to advance the theory that her brutal act was preceded by her father's abuse of her, but these facts were also not confirmed. /T1_5 1 Tf [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ )]TJ [(Langman, P)90.1 (. endstream endobj 18 0 obj <> endobj 19 0 obj <> endobj 20 0 obj <> endobj 25 0 obj <> endobj 22 0 obj <> endobj 23 0 obj <> endobj 47 0 obj <> endobj 48 0 obj <> endobj 49 0 obj <>stream (paths Among Us. -0.05 Tc 0.456 Tw /Span<>> BDC The issue is not owning guns, the issue is mental health. In prison, Spencer was diagnosed as an epileptic and received medication to treat her epilepsy and depression. 9 year old Cam Miller was wearing a blue vest.
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