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). 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. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td -2.118 -1.529 Td [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ You hit one of those fellows, too, the commissioner noted. On April 4, 1980, a day after her 18th birthday, she was sentenced to 25 years to life. She showed little interest in her studies and hated authority. EMC /T1_3 1 Tf 0.006 Tw 2.118 0 Td 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. 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. ( )Tj [( p. 77)70 (. After the first bell rang, Brenda broke the panels on the front door of her home, which was located right across the street from the elementary school. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 p. In 2009, the board again refused her application for parole and ruled it would be ten years before she would be considered again. ( )Tj )Tj What if they got the idea from what I did?. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ EMC -2.118 -1.529 Td )]TJ H\0z /T1_5 1 Tf / 76\22677)70 (. They slept on a single mattress on the living room floor. /Span<>> BDC 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. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ /Span<>> BDC /T1_2 1 Tf Block 10A, Row 2, Space 46. 84. This livens up the day. Spencer surrendered after the negotiators promised her a Burger King Meal. ( )Tj representative added that Spencer had complained to the police negotiator that the custodian had tried to get everybody off the school grounds. )]TJ I do not feel sorry for the shooters of the crimes. /T1_4 1 Tf ( )Tj ( )Tj 35 years later, Brenda Ann Spencer, who killed two and wounded eight, faced her victims in a parole hearing. /T1_4 1 Tf 2016-02-11T19:23:05-05:00 1)40.1 (3, 14. 0.013 Tc -0.013 Tw 13.929 0 Td Examinations conducted at the time of the crime, refute this version. Incarcerated For Christmas 1978, he gave her a Ruger 10/22 semi-automatic .22 caliber rifle with a telescopic sight and 500 rounds of ammunition. /T1_5 1 Tf EMC She was tried as an adult, and pled guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon. ( )Tj 6. /T1_4 1 Tf /Span<>> BDC [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 pp. She is a member of famous with the age 60 years old group. As a boy he had nightmares in which Spencer popped up out of a bathtub to finish him off. [(\223H)23 (earing 1994,)80 (\224 p. ( )Tj 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td She did it, she said, because she didn't like Mondays. ( )Tj We are no longer accepting comments on this article. This page was last changed on 2 May 2022, at 09:58. Occupation She often spent her time copying out the lyrics of violent punk songs. She was suffering from poverty with his alcoholic father since her parents separated. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td The blood hadnt been scrubbed from where he had fallen on the concrete. ( )Tj This was a horrible event that resulted in two lives lost I have never heard of this case before this article. )Tj /Span<>> BDC /T1_3 1 Tf Ive seen first hand how these tragedies affect a community. The place he loved the most. He returned to the shooting. -2.118 -1.529 Td She injured eight children. What if they got the idea from what I did?. The Investigation Discovery network portrayed Brenda Spencer's crimes in one of the three cases presented in the premiere episode of season 2 on the crime documentary series Deadly Women, titled "Thrill Killers", first air date: October 9, 2008. /Span<>> BDC -0.06 Tc 0.479 Tw /Span<>> BDC A psychiatric evaluation in December 1978 concluded that she should be put in hospital as a danger to herself and others but again, her father resisted. (\251)Tj ( )Tj (91)Tj He allowed that Spencers father had never owned up to sexually abusing her. A)40 (vailable at www)80 (.scho)-4.9 (olsho)-5 (ot)-10 (ers.info. I didnt think it all the way through, Several children were injured by gunshot wounds. She described going to the school to collect her fathers personal effects. EMC /T1_4 1 Tf 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 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. After all of the shooting was over the Principal and Janitor were dead, eight students and one police officer was injured. 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!' [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 pp. During the six-hour stand-off, a newspaper reporter rang up her neighbours to try to get eyewitness testimony. And every time I had tried suicide in the previous year I had screwed it up.. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ /T1_3 1 Tf /T1_3 1 Tf Both girls had witnessed the death of the principal and the custodian. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ My dad told them that nothing was wrong with me and everything was fine, and leave us alone, she recalled. /T1_5 1 Tf 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). 8.3965 0 0 8.5 318 463.5 Tm [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ 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. Pathology She described arriving at school and hearing shots and seeing the principal and the custodian lying dead. I hope that somehow my dad and Mike know this.. ( )Tj /T1_4 1 Tf We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. Family At least three of those children had abdominal wounds. She, because of the language and cultural differences in the United States, always counted on him to manage their affairs. With every school shooting. The reasons for such actions are different: alcohol, drugs, insults from classmates or outrages of teachers, problems with the psyche, disturbed peace of mind. 42. (75)Tj /T1_4 1 Tf EMC [(www)80 (.scho)-5 (olsho)-5 (ot)-10 (ers.info. -2.118 -1.529 Td 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_4 1 Tf Nobody at the school knew where the shots were coming from. EMC Brenda Ann Spencer was the killer who started it all. ( )Tj He blames total negligence and unbelievably bad parenting by her father in giving her the gun. /T1_4 1 Tf Nothing was different for Brenda Ann Spencer; she was one of the girls who typically hated Mondays. People who knew the girl, claim that in her biography there was a theft. 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. 0.766 0.053 Td EMC Basically, what shes telling this board are a series of untruths, the representative concluded. /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_4 1 Tf After her parents separated, she lived with her father, Wallace Spencer, in poverty. )]TJ They slept on a single mattress on the living room floor, with empty alcohol . (92)Tj [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ Brenda Spencer has spent over four decades in prison and currently belongs to the Golden Girls Club at her prison. 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. 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. 17-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer leaves the courthouse in Santa Ana, California, escorted by sheriff's deputies 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. Brenda Spencer is a sixteen-year-old murderer who entered the top five criminals who participated in the most massive mass shootings of schoolchildren in the history of world criminalistics. A person can be attending school and be gunned down.. EMC In what sense is that okay? Former student 46. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ /T1_3 1 Tf ( )Tj /T1_4 1 Tf Adobe InDesign CC 2015 (Macintosh) I think her premature death in 1991 was at least partly the result of this traumatic experience.. 0.298 Tw /Span<>> BDC )]TJ 0.038 Tw 2.118 0 Td /T1_4 1 Tf In April 1980, Spencer pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. EMC /T1_3 1 Tf 0
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She was sentenced to twenty-five years to life in prison, and is still serving her sentence at the California Institute for Women. 0.358 Tw /Span<>> BDC Thus, he had first- In the ensuing decades, it was leased to several charter and private schools. /T1_5 1 Tf 42. -2.118 -1.529 Td Brenda Ann Spencer was born in San Diego, California, on April 3, 1962. /Span<>> BDC EMC Going to school should be a safe place and not a place to fear. 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. 0 -1.176 TD Sometimes Wallace Spencer would say hello when he came to pick his daughter up, and Buell is certain that he knew who she was, and she wonders now what he thought. Why pick the school across the street? the commissioner asked. I never got the impression from her that she was interested in trying to hurt kids, he said. Spencer, who was charged in court as an adult, pleaded guilty in 1980 to two counts of murder. ( )Tj Brenda Spencer (paths Among Us. /T1_4 1 Tf )Tj 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ EMC A plaque and flagpole were erected at Cleveland Elementary in memory of the shooting victims. -2.118 -1.529 Td -2.118 -1.529 Td /Span<>> BDC EMC What about your mother? the commissioner asked. [(: )0.5 (Rowman )0.5 (and )0.5 (Little\037eld,)3 ( )]TJ /Span<>> BDC /Span<>> BDC ( )Tj [1] Another nine got hurt during that incident. ( )Tj /T1_4 1 Tf 0.476 Tw /Span<>> BDC The shooter killed a principal and a custodian as they tried to pull students into safety. /T1_4 1 Tf -2.118 -1.529 Td EMC (71)Tj [( N)23 (ew Y)60 (ork: G)30 (uilford, 1999, p. ( )Tj )Tj She barricaded herself and 7 hours did not succumb to the police persuasion. The diminutive 16-year-old with bright red hair then armed herself . !4!r`8} @~Ohb&54"bpW8I> ( )Tj "I don't like Mondays"Possible depression /Span<>> BDC Here he met his wife-to-be, Valentina. At various parole hearings since the first in 1993, she has blamed her father and also the influence of drugs for the shooting. -2.118 -1.529 Td )]TJ -2.118 -1.529 Td /Span<>> BDC The uninjured looked around confused as to what was happening. 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. [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 pp. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td EMC 2 dead9 wounded Surprisingly, the suspect was identified as a 16-year-old girl, Brenda Ann Spencer, who was living across the street from Grover Cleveland Elementary. [(W)5 (ithout Conscience,)]TJ 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. Spencer who says she was gay from birth lived with her university technician father from the age of nine after her parents broke up. ( )Tj The D.A. /T1_3 1 Tf T* She has said she also does not recall telling a cop, It was a lot of fun seeing children shot.. www.schoolshooters.info ( p. Spencer has since said she does not remember making the remark that inspired a song by the Boomtown Rats and became a kind of anthem for many of the school shooters who followed. 0.38 Tw /Span<>> BDC 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. 0.297 Tw /Span<>> BDC Adobe PDF Library 15.0 [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 p. ( )Tj Eight schoolchildren and a policeman who ran into the shots were injured. She was asked if any adults had seen danger signs before the shooting. EMC The song never mentions her name and Geldof admitted that most fans thought it was about how having a hangover made Mondays unbearable. Including shooting each other in school., The comments below have not been moderated, By
Contrary to her initial claim, she later went on to state in her 2001 parole hearing that she had been "sexually abused by [her] father" and was "waiting for the cops to show up so they could shoot [her]." 4 This new information has fueled many more theories today about Brenda Spencer's true motives in . You didnt go to school that day? the commissioner asked. When we arrived, we found him not in the hospital room, but down in the basement, dead. Born in Decatur, Illinois, Jan 29,. A comment so flippant, sarcastic and callous as "I don't like Mondays" as a motivation for shooting up a school tells FBI profiler Candice DeLong that Brenda Spencer was not mentally ill at the time of the shooting and knew what she was doing. (70)Tj She was so young and ruined her life so quickly. The likelihood of a successful parole hearing is slim at best. /T1_5 1 Tf He ended by saying on behalf of his deceased parents and the surviving members of the family that they opposed parole for Spencer. ( )Tj She was given an indefinite sentence and remains in prison. )Tj This was a Monday morning in January 1979. ( p. 1.667 0 Td And with so many U.S. school shootings since, Spencers crime has lost its once unique awfulness and, with it, the notoriety that helped keep her behind bars, they told me. [(C)11 (opyright )]TJ 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. Her ashes are to be buried at a later date. /Span<>> BDC She did it, she said, because she didn't like Mondays. In the same year, she burgled the school where she would later kill pupils, vandalised classrooms and shot out some of its windows with a gun. -2.118 -1.529 Td The commissioner reminded her that she had eventually surrendered. 1.647 0 Td [(W)5 (ithout Conscience,)]TJ /T1_4 1 Tf They cite the considerable progress she has made in rehabilitating herself in prison. /Span<>> BDC 0.419 Tw /Span<>> BDC /T1_4 1 Tf [You] put your gun down, the commissioner observed. 0.298 Tw /Span<>> BDC As the children lined up outside the gate, Spencer took out the Ruger 10/22 semi-automatic .22 caliber rifle that she'd gotten as a Christmas gift. /T1_3 1 Tf 0 Tc 0 Tw 0.471 0 Td At 16 and using a .22 rifle her father had given her as a Christmas present she started shooting, wounding 8 and killing 2. Charged as an adult, she pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon, and was sentenced to life in prison with a chance of parole after 25 years. 0 Tw 18.39 -0.053 Td /Span<>> BDC 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td However, I find their reasons to be interesting to learn about. 0.003 Tc 0.082 Tw 1.662 0 Td /Span<>> BDC 75. -0.001 Tc -0.05 Tw 2.124 0 Td 1.647 0 Td /Span<>> BDC )]TJ Because I wanted to die, she said. Mary Rintoul aged nine when she was shot in the attack has mixed feelings about letting her out. Biography No, I wasnt feeling good, she replied. The principal and a custodian were killed; eight children and a police officer were injured. /T1_5 1 Tf /T1_4 1 Tf During her pretrial psychological testing, an injury to Spencers temporal lobe came to light. Nothing was different for Brenda Ann Spencer; she was one of the girls who typically hated 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. /Span<>> BDC [The father] then went on and had a sexual relationship with her and married her, the lawyer alleged. 0.415 Tw /Span<>> BDC -2.118 -1.529 Td )]TJ [(\223H)23 (earing 2001,)80 (\224 pp. ( )Tj A single .22 caliber shot entered his back and out of Cam's chest. Brenda Spencer was sixteen years old when she shot and killed two people at a school in California. The beatings, the touching, the emotional abuse. She went on to state that no one, not teachers or counselors, gave her assistance through this, so she simply thought that this was how the world and how life worked. /Span<>> BDC However, her method of expressing her resentment is definitely unjustifiable. ( )Tj But I wasnt able to run from the bullet Brenda had for me, Hardy said. ( )Tj Her claims were treated with scepticism, given that she had never mentioned them before. /T1_4 1 Tf Police were told she had fantasised about being a sniper and would hunt birds around the neighbourhood. We will update Brenda Spencer's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible. 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. 28. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 2EfL3Kp.y7[ )Tj *JHRD%G'6F':,2CSIxV+KH77XdKtdJ'Z^NUhd~/Hy6D+)r( E(jJQn456Tj
EoS)5D):IBgdVVWN/#/Cq:~(x{:xhaeB+:?b#{?LSAOk;HDFfMF>479.%1$kvgY )]TJ Photos of Brenda Ann Spencer, 16, who killed two adults and wounded eight children in a 1979 sniper attack on a San Diego elementary school. -2.118 -1.529 Td (89)Tj EMC -2.118 -1.529 Td /T1_5 1 Tf A student organization of St. Marys University of San Antonio, Texas, featuring scholarly research, writing, and media from students of all disciplines. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ EMC /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_3 1 Tf [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ ", In early 1978, staff at a facility for problem students, into which Spencer had been referred for truancy, informed her parents that she was suicidal. ( )Tj I feel Im partially liven up the day. Her behaviour including telling a friend she wanted to kill someone, probably a police officer became increasingly disturbing. /T1_4 1 Tf /Span<>> BDC She grew up relatively poor and spent most of her early life with her father, Wallace Spencer, with whom she had a turbulent relationship. EMC Full name is Brenda Ann Spencer. ( )Tj ( )Tj The most terrible thing in all this story was the announcement of the reasons for shooting from the mouth of the murderer. EMC /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_5 1 Tf -2.118 -1.529 Td The next time (2001), she began to advance the theory that her brutal act was preceded by her father's abuse of her, but these facts were also not confirmed. Spencer was charged as an adult and pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon. She answered a reporters question on why she fired the gun, by saying I dont like Mondays. The daughter spoke of scattering her fathers ashes in the desert. Victims Peter Langman 0 Tc 0 Tw 8.4751 0 0 8.5 561.6812 581.5 Tm /Span<>> BDC Conviction Brenda Spencers name is largely forgotten now. /Span<>> BDC [(\223H)23 (earing 2001,)80 (\224 pp. 00pzTV\B6 GB%mJ%xe|!s;$nX
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