Years of life and reign of Genghis Khan. I was shooting into the parking lot.. 1)40.1 (3, 14. 366. I had never heard of this case prior to reading this article. She did it, she said, because she didn't like Mondays. ( )Tj )]TJ The place he loved the most. Her next parole hearing will happen no later than 9th September 2022. She shot him because, by her own words, he was making it more difficult for her to shoot the kids, the representative said. Spencer later said, "I asked for a radio and he bought me a gun." [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ /T1_4 1 Tf EMC Any inmate over 55 years can join the club, which offers its members special privileges. (87)Tj EMC EMC 21.746 0 Td ( )Tj They later had a daughter together. ( )Tj The number of shots fired and the number of vital hits speaks of incredibly accurate, directed shooting, and these were moving targets.. ( )Tj Spencer fired at him but missed as well. /T1_5 1 Tf 1 0 obj <>>> endobj 2 0 obj <>stream 0 Tc 0 Tw 8.5 0 0 8.5 336 538.5 Tm /GS0 gs (64)Tj Although it did not make the Top 40 in the U.S., it still received extensive radio airplay (outside of the San Diego area) despite the Spencer family's efforts to prevent it. -2.118 -1.529 Td /T1_4 1 Tf 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. The court sentenced her to life in prison with a possibility of parole after 25 years. 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. As of April2020, she remains in prison and is housed at the California Institution for Women in Chino. Brenda Spencer was born April 3rd, 1962 to her mother and father, Dorothy and Wallace Spencer. No school or kids deserve to be shot up. She was so young and ruined her life so quickly. ( )Tj At various parole hearings since the first in 1993, she has blamed her father and also the influence of drugs for the shooting. 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_4 1 Tf For Christmas 1978, he gave her a Ruger 10/22 semi-automatic .22 caliber rifle with a telescopic sight and 500 rounds of ammunition. /Span<>> BDC Thus, he had first- [You] put your gun down, the commissioner observed. [(WWW)55 (.SCHOOLSHOOTERS.INFO)]TJ After her parents separated, she lived with her father, Wallace Spencer, in poverty. Cam [Charles] Miller was seven when she shot him in the back. Its chorus of I dont like Mondays, I want to shoot the whole day down, along with lines such as The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload refer specifically to the twisted mind of Brenda Spencer. The death toll would have been far higher if a policeman hadnt blocked Spencers line of fire by parking a rubbish lorry in the way. I was 10 years old when I was shot by Brenda Spencer.. ( )Tj -2.118 -1.529 Td 0.238 Tw /Span<>> BDC /T1_5 1 Tf ( )Tj 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. Then the inmate proceeded to commit one of the most notorious crimes in the history of this nation., He went on: At 8:30 a.m., the children were lining up to enter Cleveland Elementary School She picked up her .22 caliber, semiautomatic scoped rifle and began shooting children. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td ( )Tj 9 year old Cam Miller was wearing a blue vest. )]TJ 1 Colonization and Settlement (1500-1763), 2 Revolution and Early Republic (1754-1801), 4 Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), 5 Emergence of Modern America (1877-1929), 4 Late Middle Ages-Renaissance-Reformation Europe (1300-1648), 3 Post-Classical History (600 CE-1492 CE), HS 1302 United States History since 1877, SP 3392 Language Variation and Dialectology of Spanish, Jonathan Fast, Unforgiven and Alone: Brenda Spencer and Secret Shame, in. School custodian Michael Suchar ran out in an attempt to pull the still-alive Wragg to safety. The ambulance rushing to get him to hospital took a sharp turn and the dead body of the school caretaker had rolled on top of him. This page was last changed on 2 May 2022, at 09:58. "I don't like Mondays"Possible depression By then, police were responding to the school shooting. EMC EMC (81)Tj /T1_4 1 Tf I am from a town a few miles from Santa Fe High School where the 2018 shooting took place. Her father left home for work around 7 oclock in the morning. /T1_3 1 Tf /T1_4 1 Tf -2.118 -1.529 Td The shooter killed a principal and a custodian as they tried to pull students into safety. 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. 0.319 Tw /Span<>> BDC The murderer was tried as an adult. She described the shooter, a sixteen year old, and the shooters address. xmp.did:84468427512268118C14E112F7938AD6 0 Tc 0.76 Tw /Span<>> BDC [(Langman, P)90 (. By /Span<>> BDC It was completely uncontrollable., There was also a statement by a parent, Francis Stile, whose two daughters attended the school. The shooting was already on the news before Brenda stopped shooting. I dont know why he bought me a gun, she said. The representative further reported that blood and urine samples taken after Spencers arrest tested clean. /T1_5 1 Tf She is currently single. adobe:docid:indd:dd4a55d2-0e77-11de-96a0-c0933d61f99d EMC Justice was ruthless. Instead of preparing for high school, Brenda Spencer retrieved a Ruger 10/22 rifle from her bed, a Christmas present from her father. 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. They slept on a single mattress on the living room floor. /T1_3 1 Tf /T1_4 1 Tf Spencer, who was charged in court as an adult, pleaded guilty in 1980 to two counts of murder. She injured eight children and a police officer, and killed the principal and a custodian. 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. There was also a statement from the principals daughter. The song in 1979 was in the lead in the British charts for four weeks in a row. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td [(C)11 (opyright )]TJ Spencer was 16 on Jan. 29, 1979, when she opened fire with a .22 rifle on Grover Cleveland Elementary School across from her home in San Diego, killing the principal and the custodian while wounding eight youngsters and a police officer. EMC /T1_4 1 Tf At 60 years old, Brenda Spencer height not available right now. ( )Tj You indicate you werent really trying to hit anybodybut you did a heck of a job of hitting a lot of people.. 30. 0.298 Tw /Span<>> BDC EMC For Christmas in 1978, her father, Wallace Spencer, gave her a semi-automatic .22 caliber rifle. He had been called to testify against her. (MD)Tj 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. For two murders and an attack with firearms, she was sentenced to life imprisonment. Normally, very few people convicted on a charge of murder were able to obtain parole in California before 2011. )Tj ( Lanham, )Tj 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. (contr4488032) Brenda Ann Spencer passed away peacefully surrounded by family Thursday March 30, 2017. EMC ( )Tj )]TJ )]TJ Deadly Women Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. She was home alone, as her single father had left for work. )Tj /T1_5 1 Tf 22. 2016-02-11T19:23:05-05:00 -2.118 -1.529 Td )]TJ EMC The commissioner reminded her that she had eventually surrendered. School Shooter ( )Tj 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.. ( )Tj Brenda Spencer Are you pretty good with a rifle? he asked. She killed. ( )Tj On April 4, 1980, a day after her 18th birthday, she was sentenced to 25 years to life. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ (-)Tj ( p. /T1_3 1 Tf The self-harm is commonly reported as scratching the words "courage" and "pride" into her own skin; however, Spencer corrected this during her parole hearing as "runes" reading "Unforgiven" and "alone." [(Y)60.1 (o)-4.9 (chelson, S. and S)23.1 (amenow)80.1 (, S. )]TJ -2.118 -1.529 Td She said she had been under the influence of alcohol, pot, and downers. 2 dead9 wounded She was suffering from poverty with his alcoholic father since her parents separated. 2016-02-11T19:23:05-05:00 (65)Tj /T1_3 1 Tf With every school shooting, I feel Im partially responsible, Brenda Ann Spencer told the parole board back in 2001. ( )Tj ( )Tj /T1_4 1 Tf 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 0 Tc 0 Tw 8.4751 0 0 8.5 561.6812 581.5 Tm 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. She was sentenced to twenty-five years to life in prison, and is still serving her sentence at the California Institute for Women. /Span<>> BDC 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. Barynes and Principal Wragg bravely jumped into the line of fire to help get the kids inside the school for cover. -2.118 -1.529 Td A model prisoner, she wants to be a forklift truck driver if she ever regains her freedom. ( )Tj Eight schoolchildren and a policeman who ran into the shots were injured. ( )Tj (89)Tj ( )Tj /T1_4 1 Tf ( )Tj Youre shooting these people as they become targets, and yet you told me that you didnt intend to hit anyone.. 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. The author also focused, not just on the shooting itself, but also the aftermath that centered on Brenda Spencer. Brenda Ann Spencer, now 56, has spent the last 40 years in prison at the California Institution for Women. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td -2.118 -1.529 Td www.schoolshooters.info default [(\223H)23 (earing 1994,)80 (\224 pp. /Span<>> BDC Every new school shooting by a teenager reinforces the argument that she was not uniquely wicked or crazed. When we arrived, we found him not in the hospital room, but down in the basement, dead. Surprisingly, the suspect was identified as a 16-year-old girl, Brenda Ann Spencer, who was living across the street from Grover Cleveland Elementary. 0.184 Tw /Span<>> BDC The Grover Cleveland Elementary School shooting took place on January 29, 1979, at a public elementary school in San Diego, California, United States. She is from California. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Brenda Spencer's Mugshot taken in 1996 | Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. ( )Tj ( )Tj -2.118 -1.529 Td )Tj 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td ( )Tj 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td /T1_5 1 Tf He allowed that Spencers father had never owned up to sexually abusing her. A 16-year-old girl, Brenda Spencer, who lived in a house across the street from the school, was convicted of the shootings. This was a Monday morning in January 1979. She can only ask for pardon after 25 years in prison. /T1_5 1 Tf 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 0.007 Tc -0.126 Tw /Span<>> BDC by Michael Thomas Barry. At 16 and using a .22 rifle her father had given her as a Christmas present she started shooting, wounding 8 and killing 2. My dad told them that nothing was wrong with me and everything was fine, and leave us alone, she recalled. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 pp. /Span<>> BDC -2.118 -1.529 Td Do you remember them taking cover? the commissioner asked. 25 to life in prison /T1_3 1 Tf 0.002 Tc 0.176 Tw /Span<>> BDC 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. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td But the lawyer also noted that while visiting Spencer at a juvenile-detention facility after her arrest, the father had met a girl who resembled his daughter, but was younger. Spenser's relatives tried in vain to prevent the release of the hit. ( )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. 0 Tc 0 Tw 0.471 0 Td [(\223H)23 (earing 1994,)80 (\224 p. The article kept my attention the entire time. Contradicting police reports that found no evidence of drugs or alcohol in her system, she said she had been taking both and was hallucinating at the time of the shooting. As she continued shooting, SWAT officers surrounded the house and evacuated the school from the rear. But the link with the San Diego shooting was soon spotted by Spencer herself. A person can be attending school and be gunned down.. The tragedy happened on Monday, so the killer ended her speech with the phrase: "I just do not like Mondays". -2.118 -1.529 Td While there, a journalist somehow found her home phone number and called. (100)Tj EMC (80)Tj -2.118 -1.529 Td /T1_5 1 Tf 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td People are recognising that todays young are capable of doing anything, he said. At least three of those children had abdominal wounds. A few weeks ago, she marked her 40th anniversary in prison after successive parole applications had been refused. She did it, she said, because she didn't like Mondays. ET ( )Tj EMC We found her singing as she gardened in the backyard, the son recalled. /Span<>> BDC ( )Tj A hunting enthusiast, he had enough ammunition in the house for a small army, according to one of his daughters classmates. I Don't Like Mondays was also the title of a 2006 television documentary about the event. She said the psychiatrist had recommended she be hospitalized as a danger to herself and to others. ( )Tj EMC 78. EMC )]TJ /T1_4 1 Tf B renda Ann Spencer was born on April 3, 1962. [(W)5 (ithout Conscience: T)-45 (he Disturbing W)40 (orld of the Psycho)]TJ /Span<>> BDC /T1_4 1 Tf ( )Tj Brenda also gets two mattresses and pillows, three blankets and is the priority for the coveted bottom bunk. ( p. Including shooting each other in school., The comments below have not been moderated, By However, lawyer Michael McGlinn, who defended Spencer at her trial, told me he continues to believe she will never reoffend. EMC ( p. /Span<>> BDC Grover Cleveland Elementary School, San Diego, CA /T1_4 1 Tf 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. /T1_1 1 Tf ( )Tj uuid:abfef72d-ac1c-9d47-b406-9a703c3e820b [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ 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. We were all very upset and shocked on the way to the hospital, because no one would tell us Michaels condition. I was trying to commit suicide.. /Span<>> BDC California rarely grants parole for people convicted of murder, but it hasnt stopped Brenda from trying. He informed the board that on the Saturday before the shooting Spencer had told another teen that something big was going to happen on Monday that would be on TV and radio. After firing 30-36 rounds of ammunition, Spencer barricaded herself inside her home for nearly seven hours. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td Actor ( )Tj ( )Tj Brenda Spencers income source is mostly from being a successful . (71)Tj (76)Tj In 2009, the board again refused her application for parole and ruled it would be ten years before she would be considered again. /T1_3 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 EMC Wallace Spencer got married to a woman younger than Spencer and had a daughter. /T1_3 1 Tf /T1_4 1 Tf EMC /Span<>> BDC [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 p. -2.118 -1.529 Td -2.118 -1.529 Td A good addition to the gift was the box, which contained more than 500 rounds. She said she did it for the fun of it and that just gave me chills. -2.118 -1.529 Td -0.04 Tc 0.496 Tw /Span<>> BDC ( )Tj )]TJ The other daughter had been saved from harm when a notebook with a pouch of pens stopped a bullet. Family 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. The only thing I was concentrating on was getting the police there so that they could shoot me, she said. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td He concluded that no drugs or alcohol had been talking when she said she just didnt like Mondays. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ 20 years after the shooting, Spencer made claims that her father sexually abused her. 0.46 Tw /Span<>> BDC 0 Tc 0 Tw 0.471 0 Td Spencer barricaded herself in her house for hours before an offer for a Burger King meal from negotiators convinced her to surrender. When her father gifted her the .22 caliber rifle, she thought that he was finally telling her to do it: to take her life successfully, unlike her past suicide attempts, and leave the world forever.7. -2.118 -1.529 Td (68)Tj Her claims were treated with scepticism, given that she had never mentioned them before. 0 Tc 0 Tw 0.471 0 Td /T1_3 1 Tf A former student named Cam Miller attended the hearing in person and offered the last statement. ( )Tj Discover Brenda Spencer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. /T1_4 1 Tf Spencer who says she was gay from birth lived with her university technician father from the age of nine after her parents broke up. The issue is not owning guns, the issue is mental health. /T1_4 1 Tf You didnt go to school that day? the commissioner asked. Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. EMC Do you have any idea why youd go out of your way to harm so many innocent people? the commissioner asked, I didnt consider that other people would get hurt, she said. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ (78)Tj [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ Age 16, she was 5'2" (157cm) and had bright red hair. (66)Tj He ended by saying on behalf of his deceased parents and the surviving members of the family that they opposed parole for Spencer. )]TJ /Span<>> BDC /T1_3 1 Tf People have told me that I look like him, act like him, that my kids are the spitting image of him, she said. /T1_4 1 Tf The commissioner asked if she remembered the police coming, and she said she did. 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. Spencer shot and killed Wragg as he tried to help children. /Span<>> BDC )Tj 0.298 Tw /Span<>> BDC I wasnt specifically aiming at people, she said. What about your mother? the commissioner asked. In what sense is that okay? 76\22677)70 (. 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 . 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. And because she never had to be cross-examined in court, her facetious remark about hating Mondays remained her only explanation for the shooting. /T1_4 1 Tf He suggested that the testing of the time may have simply failed to detect the intoxicants. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ (75)Tj [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ [The father] then went on and had a sexual relationship with her and married her, the lawyer alleged. EMC ( )Tj )Tj He survived but remained terrorized. [(\223H)23 (earing 2001,)80 (\224 p. 0.02 Tc -0.02 Tw 9.5 0 0 9.5 48 42 Tm /T1_4 1 Tf [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ ( )Tj False 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_4 1 Tf (69)Tj /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_2 1 Tf -2.118 -1.529 Td In prison, Spencer was diagnosed as an epileptic and received medication to treat her epilepsy and depression. -2.118 -1.529 Td ( )Tj [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]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. /T1_3 1 Tf (88)Tj Nothing can console me ever.. 28. EMC /Span<>> BDC I can still remember the pool of blood on the nurses bed, and the terror didnt end there. Brenda Ann Spencer. During the uninterrupted shooting, two teachers were killed, who saved their children at the cost of their lives. I walked into court and saw this monster glaring at me, he remembered. ( )Tj [(1)2.3 (02)]TJ The schools principal, Burton Wragg, while rushing outside, was hit on the shoulder and chest with Spencers bullets and eventually died. /T1_4 1 Tf EMC 0.358 Tw /Span<>> BDC The San Diego District Attorneys Office sent a representative to the hearing. /GS1 gs , money, salary, income, and assets. 12.894 0 Td Despite watching the principal die, he continued saving kids from the line of fire. It didnt upset you that they seemed to have happier lives?, No, she said. (92)Tj 2EfL3Kp.y7[ Debra Sevey, Subsequent Parole Consideration Hearing of Brenda Spencer, (Capitol Electronic Reporting, 2001), 15-16. /T1_4 1 Tf The diminutive 16-year-old with bright red hair then armed herself . ( )Tj /T1_5 1 Tf 0.177 Tw /Span<>> BDC [( N)23 (ew Y)60 (ork: G)30 (uilford, 1999, p. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 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. ( )Tj They slept on a single mattress on the living room floor, with empty alcohol . 1.647 0 Td /Span<>> BDC ( p. /T1_3 1 Tf 0.238 Tw /Span<>> BDC 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. (A Pro\036le for Change. 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. (67)Tj He blames total negligence and unbelievably bad parenting by her father in giving her the gun. EMC On January 29, 1979, in San Diego, California, 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer, who lived just across the road from the Cleveland Elementary School, opened fire on the students and school personnel with a .22-caliber rifle. [(Scho)-5 (ol Sho)-5 (oters: Und)-4.9 (erstanding H)23 (igh Scho)-5 (ol, College, )]TJ -0.06 Tc 0.479 Tw /Span<>> BDC EMC EMC [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ For all his ex-clients notoriety, Michael McGlinn insists the day she is released is getting close. EMC ( )Tj Sixteen-year-old Brenda Spencer fired from the window of her house children who had come to school, across the road from the ill-fated home. 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. After her parents separated, she lived with her father, Wallace Spencer, in poverty. /Span<>> BDC /T1_4 1 Tf 0.259 Tw /Span<>> BDC 93. 0.38 Tw /Span<>> BDC /T1_5 1 Tf According to court documents she would open fire from her home aiming at young children waiting to get into the school. /Span<>> BDC 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". 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. Mary Rintoul aged nine when she was shot in the attack has mixed feelings about letting her out. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. 0.04 Tw 2.118 0 Td These conversations began a week before the sad event, but, unfortunately, no one paid any attention to them. /T1_3 1 Tf Another nine got hurt during that incident. ", 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.
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