The author also focused, not just on the shooting itself, but also the aftermath that centered on Brenda Spencer. He believes that the shame, ridicule, inferiority, and powerlessness that she felt encouraged her to go as far as she did. [(\223H)23 (earing 1994,)80 (\224 p. Brenda Spencer explained her act by shooting at children just for the sake of her pleasure, and also for laughs. As she continued shooting, SWAT officers surrounded the house and evacuated the school from the rear. 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 . 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. When asked why she did the shooting, she responded: "I don't like Mondays. -2.118 -1.529 Td ( )Tj Survivors of the shooting who attended court recall a bespectacled Spencer staring at them blankly. My name is Crystal Hardy, one began. ( p. EMC (62)Tj [( p. 27)70 (. /T1_5 1 Tf EMC A month before I was arrested, my [high school] counselor took me to see a psychiatrist, she reported. Spencer shot and killed Wragg as he tried to help children. 1.667 0 Td 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". -2.118 -1.529 Td EMC The blood hadnt been scrubbed from where he had fallen on the concrete. It's just that the girl at the time had fun. 0.259 Tw /Span<>> BDC Spencer barricaded herself in her house for hours before an offer for a Burger King meal from negotiators convinced her to surrender. But I wasnt able to run from the bullet Brenda had for me, Hardy said. /T1_4 1 Tf 0 Tc 0 Tw 0.471 0 Td /T1_3 1 Tf The number of shots fired and the number of vital hits speaks of incredibly accurate, directed shooting, and these were moving targets.. EMC EMC B renda Ann Spencer was born on April 3, 1962. Nothing can console me ever.. /T1_3 1 Tf The two victims were Principal Burton Wragg and custodian Mike Suchar. ( )Tj /T1_3 1 Tf /T1_3 1 Tf 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. /T1_4 1 Tf Brenda Spencer excuse was that she had been abused by her father, yet i dont believe that is a true motive as there are hundreds of other victims and not all of them end up shooting elementary schools. EMC She said she did it for the fun of it and that just gave me chills. Later, of course, I had nightmares, and to this day I fear that someone is pointing a gun at me when Im walking in open places., And recently, my boyfriend wanted me to go to a shooting range with him because its a sport he enjoys, and although I was hesitant, I thought, Well, its been a long time, Ill probably be OK. And I sat there as he shot the silhouette, but he had to stop because I started frantically crying. /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_2 1 Tf 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 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. 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. EMC Brenda Spencer's Mugshot taken in 1996 | Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. The woman eventually left. /T1_4 1 Tf Brenda told police negotiators that the children were easy targets and warned that she would come out shooting.. My condolences to the principal and the custodian of the Cleveland Elementary School. Brenda Spencer (Brenda Ann Spencer) was born on 3 April, 1962 in San Diego, California, is a School shooting in San Diego, California (USA). A person can be attending school and be gunned down.. I had never heard of this case prior to reading this article. )]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. ( )Tj Brenda Spencers name is largely forgotten now. )]TJ 1)40.1 (3, 14. [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 p. 27)70 (. [(C)11 (opyright )]TJ 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.. Do not leave her indifferent and stories about violence. Children were going to school as the birds chirped. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ I was trying to commit suicide.. 85. What about your mother? the commissioner asked. EMC I didnt think it all the way through, Several children were injured by gunshot wounds. )Tj ( )Tj 0.319 Tw /Span<>> BDC /T1_5 1 Tf 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. EMC )]TJ /T1_4 1 Tf representative added that Spencer had complained to the police negotiator that the custodian had tried to get everybody off the school grounds. /T1_4 1 Tf 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td After firing thirty-six times, Spencer locked herself in her house for a few hours. A)40 (vailable at www)80 (.scho)-4.9 (olsho)-5 (ot)-10 (ers.info. 0.298 Tw /Span<>> BDC A good addition to the gift was the box, which contained more than 500 rounds. EMC [(dic)-20 (tions,)80 (\224 201)40 (5. ( p. [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 p. But after 13 years of working in a psychiatric hospital, she said she can understand why she went down the road she did she never got the help she needed. ( )Tj ( )Tj ( )Tj /T1_4 1 Tf I understand that she was not mentally stable but killing innocent people is not justifiable. True [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ I was 10 years old when I was shot by Brenda Spencer.. Going to school should be a safe place and not a place to fear. )Tj 58. At various parole hearings since the first in 1993, she has blamed her father and also the influence of drugs for the shooting. /T1_3 1 Tf Brenda pled guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon. -2.118 -1.529 Td 0 Tw T* ( p. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td -2.118 -1.529 Td Brenda Ann Spencer. (60)Tj ( )Tj That had been just before Christmas. 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. ( p. (83)Tj -2.118 -1.529 Td When the kids hear this, they cant possibly relate to such statements, because they have never met their grandfather, and they know they never will, because Ive told them over and over again that he is dead, that he was murdered by Brenda Spencer.. However, I find their reasons to be interesting to learn about. -2.118 -1.529 Td )]TJ Her behaviour including telling a friend she wanted to kill someone, probably a police officer became increasingly disturbing. At 16 and using a .22 rifle her father had given her as a Christmas present she started shooting, wounding 8 and killing 2. 1.647 0 Td /T1_4 1 Tf The custodians brother, Andrew Suchar also submitted a statement, noting that Michael had survived two ship sinkings during the war only to be killed by a 16-year-old in a schoolyard. Officer Robert Robb shot in the neck as he arrived but he lived. EMC FBI profiler Candice DeLong says doll mutilation is something that has been observed in children and teenagers who latter become killers or stalkers. 21.746 0 Td I dont think the shooting should have been the choice at all, she could have gone to her mom if she had some problems. Spencer barricaded herself in her house for hours before an offer for a Burger King meal from negotiators convinced her to surrender. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ \223T)70 (.J. The campaign of Genghis Khan to Russia, Olive oil: composition, properties and application. ( )Tj (99)Tj Brenda Spencer She indulged in drugs and often skipped classes at school. The place he loved the most. /T1_3 1 Tf This livens up the day.. Brenda aimed the rifle at the schoolyard from her bedroom. /T1_3 1 Tf /T1_3 1 Tf (78)Tj /T1_4 1 Tf One was from Wilfred Suchar, son of the murdered custodian, Michael Suchar. In 2005, a San Diego deputy district attorney cited an incident of self-harm from four years earlier when Spencer's girlfriend was released from jail, as showing that she was psychotic and unfit to be released. /T1_3 1 Tf Geldof has later mentioned that, "[Spencer] wrote to me saying 'she was glad she'd done it because I'd made her famous,' which is not a good thing to live with. 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. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td A former student named Cam Miller attended the hearing in person and offered the last statement. Mikhail Andreevich Osorgin: Biography and Creativity, Sovereign of all Russia Ivan 3: biography, years of government, Prince Potemkin: biography, photo, the activities of Prince Potemkin-Taurian, Ushakov's medals. Adobe InDesign CC 2015 (Macintosh) 366. 78. Wallace Spencer got married to a woman younger than Spencer and had a daughter. /T1_3 1 Tf The likelihood of a successful parole hearing is slim at best. )]TJ /T1_4 1 Tf In 2001, Spencer accused her father of physically and sexually abusing her (he denied the allegation) and forcing her to share a bed with him. Peter Langman 7)30 (3, 75. This livens up the day. Spencer surrendered after the negotiators promised her a Burger King Meal. She showed little interest in her studies and hated authority. 0.521 Tw /Span<>> BDC EMC 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. 1.647 0 Td [(: )0.5 (Rowman )0.5 (and )0.5 (Little\037eld,)3 ( )]TJ /T1_3 1 Tf /Span<>> BDC She had submitted a written statement in which she alleged that her father had begun fondling her when she was 9 and had sexually assaulted her virtually every night. 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. EMC /Span<>> BDC 46. 1.647 0 Td Status [(Scho)-5 (ol Sho)-5 (oters: Und)-4.9 (erstanding H)23 (igh Scho)-5 (ol, College, )]TJ ( )Tj /T1_5 1 Tf As of April2020, she remains in prison and is housed at the California Institution for Women in Chino. /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_5 1 Tf Brenda Spencer's Mugshot taken in 1996 | Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. -2.118 -1.529 Td Brenda Spencer (Brenda Ann Spencer) was born on 3 April, 1962 in San Diego, California, is a School shooting in San Diego, California (USA). 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td The composition was released a month after the tragedy and immediately became popular. It was completely uncontrollable., There was also a statement by a parent, Francis Stile, whose two daughters attended the school. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. EMC Why did you have to shoot the people at the school? the commissioner asked. Some of them were seriously injured, but all survived. /T1_4 1 Tf 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. (67)Tj Spencer was sentenced to only 25 years to life, despite the cruelty of her crime. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ 28. /Span<>> BDC Brenda Spencer is however, America's first female school shooter. )Tj )Tj 0.007 Tc -0.126 Tw /Span<>> BDC EMC 0.237 Tw /Span<>> BDC 2016-02-11T19:23:05-05:00 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. /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_3 1 Tf (79)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. /GS1 gs Police later found half empty alcohol bottles throughout the house. 1.647 0 Td )]TJ [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td (91)Tj )]TJ ( p. I was 9 years old when I was shot, he began. ( )Tj From 2005 to 2017, it housed the Magnolia Science Academy, a public charter middle school serving students in grades 68. EMC Grover Cleveland Elementary School, San Diego, CA. 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." EMC 22. /T1_3 1 Tf This was a horrible event that resulted in two lives lost I have never heard of this case before this article. ( )Tj 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. ( p. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td /T1_4 1 Tf [(W)5 (ithout Conscience,)]TJ /Span<>> BDC He said his wife had heard on the radio of a shooting at the school and called him at work. ( p. ( )Tj EMC 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 Brenda Spencer's father still lives across the street from the old school, and if Brenda were ever paroled, Cam figures, that is where she would return. /T1_5 1 Tf EMC Brenda Spencer (born April 3, 1962) lived in the San Carlos neighborhood of San Diego, California in a house across the street from Grover Cleveland Elementary School in the San Diego Unified School District. /T1_3 1 Tf I feel Im partially liven up the day. /Span<>> BDC Her father left home for work around 7 oclock in the morning. 0.02 Tc -0.02 Tw 9.5 0 0 9.5 48 42 Tm The uninjured looked around confused as to what was happening. But to a San Diego elementary school, and to a troubled sixteen year old, Monday, January 29, 1979 held an even more distressing meaning. Spencer told police negotiators she had shot the children and staff because they made such easy targets. She can only ask for pardon after 25 years in prison. The song in 1979 was in the lead in the British charts for four weeks in a row. EMC ( )Tj /Span<>> BDC Spencer fired three shots and hit Suchar fatally. /Span<>> BDC /T1_4 1 Tf She recalled lying in the nurses office, bleeding as bullets crashed through the window. Nothing was different for Brenda Ann Spencer; she was one of the girls who typically hated /T1_3 1 Tf ( )Tj She described the shooter, a sixteen year old, and the shooters address. /T1_5 1 Tf The court sentenced her to life in prison with a possibility of parole after 25 years. 8.3965 0 0 8.5 318 463.5 Tm )Tj [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 pp. 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_4 1 Tf Let alone an elementary school shooting. The commissioner read into the record several victim-impact statements. uuid:abfef72d-ac1c-9d47-b406-9a703c3e820b 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. She is from California. /T1_4 1 Tf No, I wasnt feeling good, she replied. A lawyer representing Spencer spoke next. 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. A single .22 caliber shot entered his back and out of Cam's chest. /T1_4 1 Tf The history of criminology has many stories about the shootings, which are arranged by schoolchildren. On Monday morning, January 29th, she asked her father if she could stay home from school because she didnt feel well, the deputy district attorney reported. 0.298 Tw /Span<>> BDC She barricaded herself and 7 hours did not succumb to the police persuasion. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td Eight students and a police officer were wounded. 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.. They made me numb so I didnt feel anything, she said. (93)Tj 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 . -2.118 -1.529 Td (76)Tj ( )Tj ( )Tj ( )Tj By then, police were responding to the school shooting. /T1_3 1 Tf (contr4488032) Brenda Ann Spencer passed away peacefully surrounded by family Thursday March 30, 2017. /T1_5 1 Tf EMC 0.419 Tw /Span<>> BDC Another, Christy Buell, was shot through her abdomen and in the buttocks, and had to undergo surgery in order to repair her intestine.2, When Gus Stevens, a reporter for the San Diego Evening Tribune, began calling around the area to gain more information about the shooting, he coincidentally placed a call to Spencers home where she gave him exactly what he wanted. )Tj However, her method of expressing her resentment is definitely unjustifiable. ( )Tj /Span<>> BDC Brenda Spencer is currently serving his sentence and looks forward to a pardon. 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.
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