/T1_3 1 Tf 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 father] then went on and had a sexual relationship with her and married her, the lawyer alleged. ( )Tj EMC However, I find their reasons to be interesting to learn about. And every time I had tried suicide in the previous year I had screwed it up.. Location Brenda Spencer is however, America's first female school shooter. )]TJ ( )Tj 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. 0.237 Tw /Span<>> BDC FBI profiler Candice DeLong says doll mutilation is something that has been observed in children and teenagers who latter become killers or stalkers. They slept on a single mattress on the living room floor, with empty alcohol bottles throughout the house. According to The Daily Beast, she would later claim that her father was abusive toward her and that her mother "just wasn't there." H\0z 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. /T1_3 1 Tf I feel Im partially liven up the day. What if they got the idea from what I did?. For all his ex-clients notoriety, Michael McGlinn insists the day she is released is getting close. Brenda Ann Spencer Shot Up A School. Her Reason? "I Don't Like Mondays 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. Cleveland Elementary School shooting (San Diego) - Wikipedia EMC /T1_3 1 Tf As she continued shooting, SWAT officers surrounded the house and evacuated the school from the rear. [( p. 7)30 (3. 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 Tc 0 Tw 0.471 0 Td -2.118 -1.529 Td The reasons for such actions are different: alcohol, drugs, insults from classmates or outrages of teachers, problems with the psyche, disturbed peace of mind. EMC Going to school should be a safe place and not a place to fear. A statement by the teenage murderer in a 1979 school - Thevintagenews 52\22653. /T1_4 1 Tf The schools principal, Burton Wragg, while rushing outside, was hit on the shoulder and chest with Spencers bullets and eventually died. But the link with the San Diego shooting was soon spotted by Spencer herself. When she was 16 years old, at Christmas, her father presented her with a rifle with an optical sight. EMC [(Langman, P)90.1 (. [(WWW)55 (.SCHOOLSHOOTERS.INFO)]TJ 0.177 Tw /Span<>> BDC /Span<>> BDC (78)Tj After firing thirty-six times, Spencer locked herself in her house for a few hours. /T1_3 1 Tf /T1_5 1 Tf Ive seen first hand how these tragedies affect a community. The brother said that although his widowed sister-in-law lived until 1991, her life actually ended in January 1979. This livens up the day." The pain these children must have felt is unforgivable. 1.647 0 Td )]TJ /T1_4 1 Tf EMC 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. Dates The issue is in plain sight but nobody in the right places of power wants to say it because its easier to point fingers. Her father left home for work around 7 oclock in the morning. 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).
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/T1_3 1 Tf Almost a year after receiving the semi-automatic weapons of the 22nd caliber, namely on January 9, 1979, shooting took place in the school, which took the lives of several people. ( )Tj 0 Tc 0 Tw 0.471 0 Td Some of them were seriously injured, but all survived. Brenda Spencer's Mugshot taken in 1996 | Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 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. 0.04 Tw 2.118 0 Td 20:55 EST 04 Apr 2019. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 0.521 Tw /Span<>> BDC /T1_4 1 Tf The uninjured looked around confused as to what was happening. When asked why she said "I hate Mondays" prompting the Boomtown Rats hit song. /Span<>> BDC Her claims were treated with scepticism, given that she had never mentioned them before. I dont remember aiming at anybody, Spencer insisted. EMC 8.4751 0 0 8.5 318 581.5 Tm EMC A former student named Cam Miller attended the hearing in person and offered the last statement. EMC 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 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. Spencer fired three shots and hit Suchar fatally. 2 dead9 wounded Monday blues are common among teenagers, who are forced to wake up at 8 am to get on a yellow school bus. 81. A hunting enthusiast, he had enough ammunition in the house for a small army, according to one of his daughters classmates. ( )Tj EMC ( p. /Span<>> BDC )]TJ ( )Tj 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. 0 Tw (-)Tj [(Langman, P)90 (. ( )Tj At least one of Spencers victims agrees. [(H)23 (are, )]TJ Debra Sevey, Subsequent Parole Consideration Hearing of Brenda Spencer, (Capitol Electronic Reporting, 2001), 15-16. Including shooting each other in school., The comments below have not been moderated, By
Instead of preparing for high school, Brenda Spencer retrieved a Ruger 10/22 rifle from her bed, a Christmas present from her father. At another hearing, she claimed she had opened fire because she wanted police to kill her. [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 p. Spencer has tried to garner sympathy by stating that her father beat and sexually abused her. ( )Tj ( pp. ( )Tj ( p. ( )Tj This article brings to light the issue of gun control. 21.746 0 Td The woman eventually left. I was shooting into the parking lot.. /T1_5 1 Tf ( )Tj )]TJ 8\2269. )]TJ EMC (85)Tj ( )Tj 42. M.O. She described arriving at school and hearing shots and seeing the principal and the custodian lying dead. Brenda Spencers income source is mostly from being a successful . [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ In another letter she wrote in prison, she stated that her father had done everything a person could do to another person. /T1_4 1 Tf Ultimately, she surrendered. /T1_4 1 Tf 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td (62)Tj Well, you could have shot out one window of the school and the police would have come., You didnt have any anger at the children?, The commissioner asked if she recalled saying she had fired on the schoolyard because I dont like Mondays., I might have said that, she replied. Biography Charged as an adult, she pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon, and was given an indefinite sentence. But this marked a terrible development in the countrys violent history, triggering an era of school massacres in which children were ready to blast away at fellow pupils. Let alone an elementary school shooting. )]TJ Brenda Spencer After several hours, Brenda Spencer surrendered her weapon and several rounds of ammunition, and was subsequently arrested. ( p. He was particularly struck by Spencer's claim that she did it because she did not like Mondays, and began writing a song about it, also incorporating the reporters' "Tell me why?," called "I Don't Like Mondays". At parole hearings, the panel reminds her of statements during the shooting. Which is not a good thing to live with., He added: Not liking Mondays as a reason for doing somebody in is a bit strange. -2.118 -1.529 Td /Span<>> BDC That summer, Spencer, who was known to hunt birds in the neighborhood, was arrested for shooting out the windows of Grover Cleveland Elementary with a BB gun and for burglary. They made me numb so I didnt feel anything, she said. /T1_1 1 Tf [( 2016 by P)20 (eter Langman, P)5 (h.D)17.1 (. Because I wanted to die, she said. [1] Another nine got hurt during that incident. )]TJ EMC At least three of those children had abdominal wounds. Brenda Spencer is America's first female school shooter. Successive parole hearings have heard powerful testimony from those who say their lives were permanently scarred by Spencer. 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. )]TJ Mass murderer up for parole 40 years after she opened fire on school to Further casualties were avoided only because the police obstructed her line of fire by moving a garbage truck in front of her house. [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 pp. /Span<>> BDC Mike to the children, ran to Mr. Wraggs aid, and the inmate shot him in the chest and killed him. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td -0.047 Tw 2.118 0 Td 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. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The 1982 Japanese-American documentary film The Killing of America depicts the incident. )]TJ This livens up the day.. 35 years later, Brenda Ann Spencer, who killed two and wounded eight, faced her victims in a parole hearing. ( )Tj Brenda loved to listen to stories with a tragic end, she liked the details of the bloody murders. You indicate you werent really trying to hit anybodybut you did a heck of a job of hitting a lot of people.. /T1_4 1 Tf She is not dating anyone. -2.118 -1.529 Td Monday blues are common among teenagers, who are forced to wake up at 8 am to get on a yellow school bus. EMC -0.003 Tc -0.051 Tw 0.476 0 Td ( )Tj What is brenda spencer doing now? 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. ( )Tj )Tj BT 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. Despite what former District Attorney Richard Sachs said on the episode of Deadly Women, Spencer's rampage was not "the country's, if not the world's first school shooting case before 1979." /T1_5 1 Tf 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 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. ( p. 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. Adobe PDF Library 15.0 28. B renda Ann Spencer was born on April 3, 1962. /Span<>> BDC (72)Tj ( )Tj In the ensuing decades, it was leased to several charter and private schools. 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. [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 p. /T1_4 1 Tf For Christmas 1978 her father, Wallace, had given her a .22 rifle as a present. (94)Tj \223T)70 (.J. )]TJ During a 2009 parole hearing, her most recent, she insisted that she had not intended to shoot anybody. ( )Tj )]TJ He allowed that Spencers father had never owned up to sexually abusing her.
Name 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td The sighs floating in the air are palpable and nothing seems possible. 0.766 0.053 Td Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? EMC 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td EMC People have told me that I look like him, act like him, that my kids are the spitting image of him, she said. /T1_3 1 Tf )]TJ /Span<>> BDC It was completely uncontrollable., There was also a statement by a parent, Francis Stile, whose two daughters attended the school. A lawyer representing Spencer spoke next. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td (100)Tj /Span<>> BDC 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 Family She shot him because, by her own words, he was making it more difficult for her to shoot the kids, the representative said. /Span<>> BDC 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. EMC 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. 42. 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. EMC [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 p. /T1_3 1 Tf [(H)23 (are, )]TJ EMC The song in 1979 was in the lead in the British charts for four weeks in a row. T* As of December 2015, shed been denied parole four times. The parole board chairman said that as she had not previously told any prison staff about the allegations, he doubted whether they were true. 93. /Span<>> BDC -2.118 -1.529 Td -2.118 -1.529 Td )]TJ At 60 years old, Brenda Spencer height not available right now. 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. 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. [( p. 77)70 (. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td A month later, on January 29, 1979, she achieved infamy when she began shooting at her school, Grover Cleveland Elementary in San Diego from her home, located across the street. 0.298 Tw /Span<>> BDC 1.647 0 Td Brenda Ann Spencer - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /Span<>> BDC 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. 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. The blood hadnt been scrubbed from where he had fallen on the concrete. 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. 0.244 Tw /Span<>> BDC ( )Tj [(\223H)23 (earing 2005,)80 (\224 p. A neighbor once said when she tried to be friends with Brenda at age 5 Brenda ripped the doll of the neighbor's head off. /T1_0 1 Tf 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td EMC Spencer who says she was gay from birth lived with her university technician father from the age of nine after her parents broke up. EMC (MD)Tj They slept on a single mattress on the living room floor, with empty alcohol . 0.358 Tw /Span<>> BDC HtyTY
Q" }]iwQQ*=L`:i_L{NSTw)k+CZ"Rhtn Nothing was different for Brenda Ann Spencer; she was one of the girls who typically hated Mondays. 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. 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. ( p. (-)Tj He had been called to testify against her. /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_4 1 Tf EMC [( pp. (64)Tj Ugh, its Monday are the words that usually follow the arrival of the most dreaded day of the week. ( )Tj Early Life Brenda's parents divorced when she was young and lived with her father. A 16-year-old girl, Brenda Spencer, who lived in a house across the street from the school, was convicted of the shootings. 58tba4u0)^[=0Ue[]Z|_x-~uIwc|64gk{x6%-m>4K;m/e_9*W>^>iL]&S>SzL^eAyC8qk#;+LGOOO,drP n7a S)f ( )Tj Nine counts of attempted murder. EMC Wallace Spencer (father)Dot Spencer (mother)Teresa Spencer (sister)Scott Spencer (brother)Unnamed half-sister I didnt think it all the way through, Several children were injured by gunshot wounds. The San Diego District Attorneys Office sent a representative to the hearing. 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. EMC Grover Cleveland Elementary School, San Diego, CA. )Tj Appearance 0.298 Tw /Span<>> BDC Three shots rang out. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ The daughter spoke of scattering her fathers ashes in the desert.
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. /Span<>> BDC ( )Tj People who knew the girl, claim that in her biography there was a theft. Despite Spencer still being imprisoned, the pain and suffering of the casualties and their families would not magically disappear. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ She had asked her father for a radio. 0.007 Tc -0.126 Tw /Span<>> BDC -0.024 Tw /Span<>> BDC 0 Tw T* What if they got the idea from what I did?. 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. Brenda Spencer was sixteen years old when she shot and killed two people at a school in California. EMC 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. She was tried as an adult, and pled guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon. )]TJ Parents were not too concerned about this behavior of her daughter, her interest in firearms was supported by her father. The only thing I was concentrating on was getting the police there so that they could shoot me, she said. Their effort to save the children will be appreciated forever. Spencer showed no remorse in her crime; her full . /T1_3 1 Tf Her ashes are to be buried at a later date. EMC 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. /T1_3 1 Tf Yet, while it was all happening, so beautiful, so serene, I couldnt get over the perverse violence associated with my dads passing. 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. /T1_4 1 Tf Are you pretty good with a rifle? he asked. EMC Born in Decatur, Illinois, Jan 29,. ( p. (96)Tj She also killed custodian Mike Suchar (age 56) as he tried to pull a student to safety. Brenda Ann Spencer @craymondaykilla On January 9,1979 I shot at Grover Cleveland Elementary School across the street from my house and killed the principal and the custodian, also injured 9 others San Diego, CAmondaysarentmything.tumblr.comJoined January 2016 3Following 51Followers Tweets Tweets & replies Media Likes Brenda Ann Spencer's Tweets It also be projection, a signal that she's being abused at home by someone. Brenda Spencer | WickedWe - The Dark Side Of Humanity Out of the 30 rounds she fired, she hit eleven people with eleven hits, meaning she hit them all once. 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. EMC 40 years ago, Brenda Spencer took lives, changed lives in a mass EMC /Span<>> BDC He concluded that no drugs or alcohol had been talking when she said she just didnt like Mondays. 2016-02-11T19:23:05-05:00 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.. 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. ( )Tj -2.118 -1.529 Td The murderer was tried as an adult. No, I wasnt feeling good, she replied. Yet her father, who died in 2016, was by all accounts a very odd man.