[(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ /T1_5 1 Tf [(Scho)-5 (ol Sho)-5 (oters: Und)-4.9 (erstanding H)23 (igh Scho)-5 (ol, College, )]TJ )Tj ( )Tj )Tj 22. I think her premature death in 1991 was at least partly the result of this traumatic experience.. ( p. EMC What if they got the idea from what I did?. Any inmate aged 55 or older is eligible to be identified as a GG and participation is voluntary., Ryan Wallers story His unfortunate death, Where is Brent Dennis now? (80)Tj 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. )Tj Brenda Spencer's Mugshot taken in 1996 | Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. He said his wife had heard on the radio of a shooting at the school and called him at work. ( )Tj /T1_4 1 Tf The head custodian, Michael Suchar, known as Mr. -2.118 -1.529 Td Brenda Ann Spencer - "I Don't Like Mondays" - 1979 - Crime Magazine For Christmas 1978 her father, Wallace, had given her a .22 rifle as a present. ( )Tj [( p. 27)70 (. -2.118 -1.529 Td The song became No 1 in the UK singles chart and was backed by an eerie video in which the band performed the piano ballad to a classroom of young children. -2.118 -1.529 Td ( )Tj from application/x-indesign to application/pdf /T1_3 1 Tf 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. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ A 16-year-old girl, Brenda Spencer, who lived in a house across the street from the school, was convicted of the shootings. EMC Going to school should be a safe place and not a place to fear. This was a Monday morning in January 1979. EMC Mental health needs to be addressed everywhere and not just when someone acts out like this. 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. ", 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. /T1_4 1 Tf Let alone an elementary school shooting. Mondays always carry with them a negative connotation and contain components such as depression, fatigue, and anguish. /T1_3 1 Tf ( )Tj 0 tv_nwa_ J endstream endobj 50 0 obj <>stream She was later diagnosed with depression and epilepsy and received medication to treat her mental issues. Many are convinced the other killers were inspired by her. EMC From 2005 to 2017, it housed the Magnolia Science Academy, a public charter middle school serving students in grades 68. (90)Tj 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. They slept on a single mattress on the living room floor, with empty alcohol bottles throughout the house. EMC When he first met her, she was like a total zombie pale, ashen and with no recollection of what had occurred, and she stayed that way for some time. A Case of the Mondays: Brenda Spencer and the Cleveland Elementary 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. The place he loved the most. 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. 2016-02-11T19:23:05-05:00 /Span<>> BDC ( )Tj [You] put your gun down, the commissioner observed. -2.118 -1.529 Td default 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. 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. She was home alone, as her single father had left for work. Whether these theories are true or not, Brenda Spencer was tried as an adult and pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and nine counts of assault. 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. 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. Brenda Spencer was sixteen years old when she shot and killed two people at a school in California. EMC [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 pp. /Span<>> BDC EMC She had a parole hearing in September 2021, but she waived the hearing for one in 2022. /Span<>> BDC She is from California. Brenda Spencer | Deadly Women Wiki | Fandom Because I knew that if I fired on the school the police would show up, and they would shoot me and kill me, she said. ( )Tj Lane: F)10 (urther Re\024ec)-20 (tions,)80 (\224 2016. ( )Tj [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ Spencer told police negotiators she had shot the children and staff because they made such easy targets. Former student Why pick the school across the street? the commissioner asked. The number of shots fired and the number of vital hits speaks of incredibly accurate, directed shooting, and these were moving targets.. (100)Tj /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_4 1 Tf 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. The commissioner observed that Spencer had described a dark side to her father, while others described him as a decent man. 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. Any inmate over 55 years can join the club, which offers its members special privileges. 7)30 (3, 75. 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. EMC [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 p. ( )Tj /T1_3 1 Tf A lot of kids laughing and doing their thing? the commissioner asked. 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." (95)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. [( pp. ( )Tj The commissioner read into the record several victim-impact statements. [( p. 207)70 (. Police later found half empty alcohol bottles throughout the house. Peter Langman / -2.118 -1.529 Td 88. Spencer, an introverted and scrawny tomboy, had a history of petty theft, drug abuse and school truancy. 0.184 Tw /Span<>> BDC /T1_5 1 Tf Neighbors claimed Spencer had . Out of the 30 rounds she fired, she hit eleven people with eleven hits, meaning she hit them all once. /T1_5 1 Tf There didnt seem much I or the rest of the family could do to help her., He went on to say that his father had gotten out alive from some rough times in the Pacific during World War II. He was an antisocial loner who lived in poverty in a house strewn with empty beer and whisky bottles. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ I was shooting into the parking lot.. (86)Tj My dad and Mike were the only two to die that day, he said, The kids that they were trying to save all lived. 0.305 Tw /Span<>> BDC Brenda would go to claim sexual abuse by her father. ( p. -gG1dd[I mg=:a EMC ( )Tj /T1_3 1 Tf A student organization of St. Marys University of San Antonio, Texas, featuring scholarly research, writing, and media from students of all disciplines. /T1_4 1 Tf ( p. 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 (72)Tj 0.419 Tw /Span<>> BDC 2 dead9 wounded ( )Tj 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. 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. 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. The girl was born in the USA, California, the city of San Diego, in 1962. In 1993, she tried to prove that she committed the act, being under the drug and alcohol intoxication. This livens up the day.. www.schoolshooters.info Despite Spencer still being imprisoned, the pain and suffering of the casualties and their families would not magically disappear. 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. EMC 58. Under the terms of her indeterminate sentence, Spencer became eligible for hearings to consider her suitability for parole in 1993. A few weeks ago, she marked her 40th anniversary in prison after successive parole applications had been refused. A person can be attending school and be gunned down.. /T1_3 1 Tf ( )Tj A teenage friend indicated it had been a planned attack, telling police that, days beforehand, Spencer warned him she was planning to do something that would get on TV on Monday. ( p. 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. EMC [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 p. It is very saddening to read that she would target an elementary school full of innocent children but it is very satisfying to also read that she is still serving time for the horrific thing she had committed. She has said she also does not recall telling a cop, It was a lot of fun seeing children shot.. Both girls had witnessed the death of the principal and the custodian. )]TJ At 60 years old, Brenda Spencer height not available right now. EMC The court sentenced her to life in prison with a possibility of parole after 25 years. -2.118 -1.529 Td /T1_4 1 Tf The history of criminology has many stories about the shootings, which are arranged by schoolchildren. -0.05 Tc 0.456 Tw /Span<>> BDC On Monday, January 29, 1979 started out as a normal day. The most terrible thing in all this story was the announcement of the reasons for shooting from the mouth of the murderer. 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. [(Langman, P)90.1 (. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td EMC 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. /T1_4 1 Tf /Span<>> BDC 0.006 Tw 2.118 0 Td EMC She confirmed that she had heard the kids in the school across the street. The pain these children must have felt is unforgivable. ( )Tj 0.297 Tw /Span<>> BDC 81. A teacher had called for her to duck. Brenda's parents divorced when she was young and lived with her father. (paths Among Us. ( )Tj Spencer has tried to garner sympathy by stating that her father beat and sexually abused her. 0.002 Tc 0.176 Tw /Span<>> BDC People have told me that I look like him, act like him, that my kids are the spitting image of him, she said. 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. Brenda Ann Spencer, now 56, has spent the last 40 years in prison at the California Institution for Women. ( )Tj Another nine got hurt during that incident. ( )Tj Monday blues are common among teenagers, who are forced to wake up at 8 am to get on a yellow school bus. Nothing can console me ever.. 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. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ 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. -2.118 -1.529 Td The tragedy that occurred in the primary school Grover Cleveland, most striking is that the murderer took away the lives of people for fun. EMC /Span<>> BDC Status B renda Ann Spencer was born on April 3, 1962. Thrill Killers. The tragedy happened on Monday, so the killer ended her speech with the phrase: "I just do not like Mondays". 1.667 0 Td EMC ( )Tj 0.358 Tw /Span<>> BDC The look at Brenda Foster gave me was enough to scare any young child to death.. No school or kids deserve to be shot up. /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_4 1 Tf Their effort to save the children will be appreciated forever. EMC EMC The Brenda Spencer Murder Case, which was published in 2012, and is the single best source I am aware of regarding Spencer. 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. My question is, will there be another boring Monday for her? he asked. ( )Tj The Creepiest Teen Murderer Brenda Ann Spencer - Medium EMC Real Life False 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. Brenda is the youngest child and has one older brother and one older sister. Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. EMC 0 Tc 0 Tw 8.5 0 0 8.5 336 538.5 Tm [(W)5 (ithout Conscience,)]TJ [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 p. 27)70 (. ( )Tj /T1_3 1 Tf It also be projection, a signal that she's being abused at home by someone. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td Two were killed, including the head teacher, Burton Wragg, who ran outside and was hit as he tried to help injured children, and the school caretaker, who had tried to rescue the head. 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. )]TJ During the uninterrupted shooting, two teachers were killed, who saved their children at the cost of their lives. Every new school shooting by a teenager reinforces the argument that she was not uniquely wicked or crazed. ( )Tj /Span<>> BDC Block 10A, Row 2, Space 46. )]TJ [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ -2.118 -1.529 Td ( )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 0.237 Tw /Span<>> BDC 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. /T1_5 1 Tf /T1_3 1 Tf EMC Brenda pled guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon. ( p. )]TJ The author also focused, not just on the shooting itself, but also the aftermath that centered on Brenda Spencer. Copyright 2016 by Peter Langman, Ph.D. /T1_4 1 Tf 0.003 Tc 0.082 Tw 1.662 0 Td [(Langman, P)90 (. She injured eight children and a police officer, and killed the principal and a custodian. 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. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ -2.118 -1.529 Td (88)Tj [(\223H)23 (earing 2001,)80 (\224 pp. 0.298 Tw /Span<>> BDC By ( )Tj ( )Tj 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 The 1982 Japanese-American documentary film The Killing of America depicts the incident. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 8.4751 0 0 8.5 318 581.5 Tm [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ 25\22626. Being from San Diego, California this article sparked my interest. (99)Tj 30. She is currently single. /T1_5 1 Tf I was trying to commit suicide.. ( )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. EMC /T1_3 1 Tf /Span<>> BDC 0.521 Tw /Span<>> BDC EMC ( )Tj /Span<>> BDC Her ashes are to be buried at a later date. -0.024 Tw /Span<>> BDC ( )Tj Early Life Brenda's parents divorced when she was young and lived with her father. 6. -2.118 -1.529 Td /Span<>> BDC The First Modern School Shooter Feels Responsible for the Rest Motive /Span<>> BDC 24\22625. Brenda Spencer | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers EMC /Span<>> BDC 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.. This page was last changed on 2 May 2022, at 09:58. /T1_3 1 Tf Principal Burton Wragg was speaking with teacher Daryl Barnes (who was gave testimony on the episode) when the gun shots started and ran outside to see school children falling to the floor, some first grabbing a body part and screaming in pain before falling. 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_4 1 Tf As she continued shooting, SWAT officers surrounded the house and evacuated the school from the rear. ( )Tj For Christmas in 1978, her father, Wallace Spencer, gave her a semi-automatic .22 caliber rifle. (98)Tj School Shooter /T1_3 1 Tf 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. -2.118 -1.529 Td At another hearing, she claimed she had opened fire because she wanted police to kill her. What if they got the idea from what I did?. (68)Tj /T1_3 1 Tf My dad told them that nothing was wrong with me and everything was fine, and leave us alone, she recalled. Brenda Spencer, the culprit of this shooting, in case her second statement was true, she should not have opened fire to that school, she should have called the police directly. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ She also killed custodian Mike Suchar (age 56) as he tried to pull a student to safety. A)39.7 (vail)]TJ ( )Tj [(H)23 (are, )]TJ /T1_5 1 Tf A statement by the teenage murderer in a 1979 school - Thevintagenews Brenda Spencers name is largely forgotten now. )Tj EMC 0.355 Tw /Span<>> BDC 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. /Span<>> BDC 0 Tc 0 Tw 0.471 0 Td Biography ( )Tj Spencer remains in prison despite parole hearings. What is brenda spencer doing now? /T1_3 1 Tf 84. /T1_4 1 Tf Jonathan Fast, Unforgiven and Alone: Brenda Spencer and Secret Shame, in, College of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences. [(201)40 (5. She described going to the school to collect her fathers personal effects. Normally, very few people convicted on a charge of murder were able to obtain parole in California before 2011. 0.298 Tw /Span<>> BDC -2.118 -1.529 Td /T1_3 1 Tf While at the California Institution for Women in Chino, she worked repairing electronic equipment. Age 16, she was 5'2" (157cm) and had bright red hair. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td She grew up relatively poor and spent most of her early life with her father, Wallace Spencer, with whom she had a turbulent relationship. (75)Tj 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. When we arrived, we found him not in the hospital room, but down in the basement, dead. She shot eight children, and she shot a responding police officer, Robert Robb, in the neck.
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