0 Tw 2.118 0 Td Her father still lives in the house where the shooting took place. Surprisingly, the suspect was identified as a 16-year-old girl, Brenda Ann Spencer, who was living across the street from Grover Cleveland Elementary. 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. 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 Spencer: murder for the sake of entertainment - UNANSEA.COM /T1_5 1 Tf Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? And because she never had to be cross-examined in court, her facetious remark about hating Mondays remained her only explanation for the shooting. )]TJ [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ Brenda pled guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon. Mike to the children, ran to Mr. Wraggs aid, and the inmate shot him in the chest and killed him. She was sentenced to twenty-five years to life in prison, and is still serving her sentence at the California Institute for Women. Brenda Spencer | Deadly Women Wiki | Fandom [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ A lawyer representing Spencer spoke next. (93)Tj Monday blues are common among teenagers, who are forced to wake up at 8 am to get on a yellow school bus. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ 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 dad told them that nothing was wrong with me and everything was fine, and leave us alone, she recalled. 0.02 Tc -0.02 Tw 9.5 0 0 9.5 48 42 Tm These conversations began a week before the sad event, but, unfortunately, no one paid any attention to them. EMC I find it really interesting to build this article and its literary resources to hook the reader. ( )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. EMC The 2008 book Ceremonial Violence: A Psychological Explanation of School Shootings, by Jonathan Fast, analyzes the Cleveland Elementary shooting and four other cases from a psychological perspective. 0.298 Tw /Span<>> BDC Brenda Spencers name is largely forgotten now. /T1_5 1 Tf [(able at www)80.1 (.scho)-5 (olsho)-4.9 (ot)-10 (ers.info. )]TJ At least one of Spencers victims agrees. 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. )]TJ EMC The tragedy happened on Monday, so the killer ended her speech with the phrase: "I just do not like Mondays". ( )Tj And then there was a statement by Steve Wragg, son of Principal Burton Wragg. (72)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. [( p. 7)30 (3. EMC /T1_3 1 Tf [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ /T1_4 1 Tf Spencer, an introverted and scrawny tomboy, had a history of petty theft, drug abuse and school truancy. There was also a statement from the principals daughter. EMC This was a Monday morning in January 1979. 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. [(H)23 (are, )]TJ In what sense is that okay? In the ensuing decades, it was leased to several charter and private schools. 0 Tc 0 Tw 8.5 0 0 8.5 336 538.5 Tm 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. 6. 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. BT We found her singing as she gardened in the backyard, the son recalled. ( )Tj She injured eight children and a police officer, and killed the principal and a custodian. 81. -2.118 -1.529 Td )]TJ EMC [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ ( )Tj Brenda Ann SPENCER - Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers 0.184 Tw /Span<>> BDC ( )Tj 16. EMC 0.244 Tw /Span<>> BDC Brenda Ann Spencer was born in San Diego, California, on April 3, 1962. EMC 21.746 0 Td I am from a town a few miles from Santa Fe High School where the 2018 shooting took place. /T1_3 1 Tf ( )Tj A)40 (vailable at www)80 (.scho)-4.9 (olsho)-5 (ot)-10 (ers.info. [( p. 77)70 (. (101)Tj She then spoke words that have gained ever more truth after ever more mass shootings. 79, 80. (60)Tj EMC /Span<>> BDC )Tj I was shooting into the parking lot.. Police proceeded to move a garbage truck in front of Spencer's line of fire. ( )Tj She barricaded herself and 7 hours did not succumb to the police persuasion. 0 Tc 0 Tw 0.471 0 Td Adobe PDF Library 15.0 This article brings to light the issue of gun control. 0 Tc 0.76 Tw /Span<>> BDC 0.476 Tw /Span<>> BDC Brenda would go to claim sexual abuse by her father. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td The girl was born in the USA, California, the city of San Diego, in 1962. /T1_3 1 Tf 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. The Lifetime Movies, series Killer Kids released an episode "Deadly Compulsion" depicting Spencer's crimes, first air date: September 3, 2014. Early Life Brenda's parents divorced when she was young and lived with her father. Survivors of the shooting who attended court recall a bespectacled Spencer staring at them blankly. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ He had been called to testify against her. ( )Tj Mary Rintoul aged nine when she was shot in the attack has mixed feelings about letting her out. The sighs floating in the air are palpable and nothing seems possible. EMC 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td )Tj Her next parole hearing will happen no later than 9th September 2022. Mental health needs to be addressed everywhere and not just when someone acts out like this. 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". )Tj 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. The commissioner reminded her that she had eventually surrendered. EMC Grover Cleveland Elementary School, San Diego, CA. Monday blues are common among teenagers, who are forced to wake up at 8 am to get on a yellow school bus. Im a little more grateful for my normal Mondays now! I was greatly comforted when the policemen arrived to carry me away. 78, 80. ( )Tj His life and death detailed, Where is Amy Fisher now? 0.003 Tc 0.082 Tw 1.662 0 Td Children were going to school as the birds chirped. 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. Many are convinced the other killers were inspired by her. And every time I had tried suicide in the previous year I had screwed it up.. ( p. She is from California. You hit one of those fellows, too, the commissioner noted. /T1_5 1 Tf )]TJ -2.118 -1.529 Td During a 2009 parole hearing, her most recent, she insisted that she had not intended to shoot anybody. Not long after Brenda Spencer went to jail, her father married his daughter's teenage cellmate. Brenda Ann Spencer Shot Up A School. Her Reason? "I Don't Like Mondays 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. She shot him because, by her own words, he was making it more difficult for her to shoot the kids, the representative said. 0 Tc 0 Tw 0.471 0 Td Or as Wilfred Suchar, son of the murdered school caretaker, put it at a parole hearing: My question is, will there be another boring Monday for her?. ( )Tj A lot of kids laughing and doing their thing? the commissioner asked. EMC 1.647 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. She injured eight children. She was home alone, as her single father had left for work. When asked why she said "I hate Mondays" prompting the Boomtown Rats hit song. /T1_4 1 Tf The commissioner asked if she remembered the police coming, and she said she did. Wallace Spencer (father)Dot Spencer (mother)Teresa Spencer (sister)Scott Spencer (brother)Unnamed half-sister 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. 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. 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.. 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. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ -2.118 -1.529 Td [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 p. 27)70 (. 17:46 EST 04 Apr 2019 During the uninterrupted shooting, two teachers were killed, who saved their children at the cost of their lives. A statement by the teenage murderer in a 1979 school - Thevintagenews A)39.7 (vail)]TJ )]TJ Brenda's parents divorced when she was young and lived with her father.