/T1_4 1 Tf ( )Tj -2.118 -1.529 Td 0 Tw (-)Tj Now, however, Spencers freedom may be in sight. 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. /Span<>> BDC 28. You indicate you werent really trying to hit anybodybut you did a heck of a job of hitting a lot of people.. /Span<>> BDC /Span<>> BDC 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. ( )Tj -2.118 -1.529 Td She is eligible for a Parole Suitability Hearing in September 2021. ( )Tj Brenda's parents divorced when she was young and lived with her father. /Span<>> BDC In December, a psychiatric evaluation arranged by her probation officer recommended that Spencer be admitted to a mental hospital for depression, but her father refused to give permission. -0.196 Tw /Span<>> BDC -2.118 -1.529 Td )]TJ ( )Tj The board denied her and she will not be eligible for another hearing until 2019. (63)Tj -2.118 -1.529 Td Spencer has tried to garner sympathy by stating that her father beat and sexually abused her. / EMC EMC She, because of the language and cultural differences in the United States, always counted on him to manage their affairs. After several hours, Brenda Spencer surrendered her weapon and several rounds of ammunition, and was subsequently arrested. 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. They slept on a single mattress on the living room floor, with empty alcohol bottles throughout the house. It can show a rage against the owner of the doll. Her behaviour including telling a friend she wanted to kill someone, probably a police officer became increasingly disturbing. /T1_3 1 Tf [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ )]TJ /Span<>> BDC Spenser's relatives tried in vain to prevent the release of the hit. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ Four times the murderer asked for parole, and four times she was refused. Because I wanted to die, she said. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td /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. /T1_4 1 Tf And she began to fire. (157 cm) and had bright red hair. -2.118 -1.529 Td EMC EMC When asked why he might have done that, she answered, "I felt like he wanted me to kill myself.". 0 Tc 0.76 Tw /Span<>> BDC [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ 36. A student organization of St. Marys University of San Antonio, Texas, featuring scholarly research, writing, and media from students of all disciplines. I hope that somehow my dad and Mike know this.. In another letter she wrote in prison, she stated that her father had done everything a person could do to another person. 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. The composition was released a month after the tragedy and immediately became popular. ( )Tj /T1_4 1 Tf [(WWW)55 (.SCHOOLSHOOTERS.INFO)]TJ /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_4 1 Tf [(able at www)80.1 (.scho)-5 (olsho)-4.9 (ot)-10 (ers.info. EMC I am from a town a few miles from Santa Fe High School where the 2018 shooting took place. 22. 26. ( )Tj As of May 2020, she remains in prison. Examinations conducted at the time of the crime, refute this version. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td /T1_4 1 Tf 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. EMC Nothing was different for Brenda Ann Spencer; she was one of the girls who typically hated She is from California. /T1_4 1 Tf 0 Tc 0 Tw 0.471 0 Td ( )Tj [( 2016 by P)20 (eter Langman, P)5 (h.D)17.1 (. 0.46 Tw /Span<>> BDC /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_3 1 Tf 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. /T1_3 1 Tf -gG1dd[I
mg=:a Both girls had witnessed the death of the principal and the custodian. I walked into court and saw this monster glaring at me, he remembered. 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. 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. He allowed that Spencers father had never owned up to sexually abusing her. Spencer was not once searching for ways to go free. /Span<>> BDC /T1_4 1 Tf I dont remember aiming at anybody, Spencer insisted. /T1_4 1 Tf 0.002 Tc 0.176 Tw /Span<>> BDC 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. Nine counts of attempted murder. /T1_4 1 Tf )Tj (88)Tj /T1_4 1 Tf [The father] then went on and had a sexual relationship with her and married her, the lawyer alleged. 24\22625. In April 1980, Spencer pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. 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. She shot people for the fun of it. H\0z (paths Among Us. /GS0 gs )]TJ (103)Tj EMC [(W)5 (ithout Conscience,)]TJ Thirty years later, Miller beheld her in another proceeding and asked the board not to parole her. After firing thirty-six times, Spencer locked herself in her house for a few hours. However, lawyer Michael McGlinn, who defended Spencer at her trial, told me he continues to believe she will never reoffend. 21, 50. B renda Ann Spencer was born on April 3, 1962. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td The total number of shots from the murderer's window was 36. The other daughter had been saved from harm when a notebook with a pouch of pens stopped a bullet. EMC This article did a good job of explaining what had happened that day and what her motive was. )Tj xmp.did:84468427512268118C14E112F7938AD6 Shooting (.22 caliber rifle) -2.118 -1.529 Td /Span<>> BDC EMC Brenda Spencer's Mugshot taken in 1996 | Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. But I wasnt able to run from the bullet Brenda had for me, Hardy said. Appearance Brenda threatened with new shots, so for such a long time she could not be forced to surrender to the police. ( p. The shooter killed a principal and a custodian as they tried to pull students into safety. 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. A single .22 caliber shot entered his back and out of Cam's chest. )]TJ /T1_4 1 Tf EMC She did it, she said, because she didn't like Mondays. ( )Tj Spencer barricaded herself in her house for hours before an offer for a Burger King meal from negotiators convinced her to surrender. /Span<>> BDC adobe:docid:indd:dd4a55d2-0e77-11de-96a0-c0933d61f99d He survived but remained terrorized. /T1_3 1 Tf Instead, he gave her a Ruger semi-automatic rifle and 500 rounds of ammunition for Christmas. 0.766 0.053 Td , updated Many are convinced the other killers were inspired by her. -2.118 -1.529 Td At another hearing, she claimed she had opened fire because she wanted police to kill her. Brenda Spencer was born on April 3, 1962 in San Diego, California, USA. -2.118 -1.529 Td 21.746 0 Td by Michael Thomas Barry. ( )Tj 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td /T1_3 1 Tf [You] put your gun down, the commissioner observed. 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 She was tried as an adult, and pled guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon. 2016-02-11T19:23:05-05:00 78. -2.118 -1.529 Td )]TJ 40. )Tj Whether Spencer was a cold-hearted killer or a truly lost and confused soul that simply wanted an escape, it is undeniable that her horrible actions have had some frightening consequences in our modern world. HtyTY
Q" }]iwQQ*=L`:i_L{NSTw)k+CZ"Rhtn The likelihood of a successful parole hearing is slim at best. Out of the 30 rounds she fired, she hit eleven people with eleven hits, meaning she hit them all once. 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 . ( )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. /T1_5 1 Tf /T1_5 1 Tf Brenda pled guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon. 0 Tw 18.39 -0.053 Td [(C)11 (opyright )]TJ 0.297 Tw /Span<>> BDC /T1_5 1 Tf Spencer later said, "I asked for a radio and he bought me a gun." The brother said that although his widowed sister-in-law lived until 1991, her life actually ended in January 1979. Her father still lives in the house where the shooting took place. (85)Tj EMC /T1_4 1 Tf The head custodian, Michael Suchar, known as Mr. /T1_4 1 Tf 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. EMC EMC ( p. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 0.259 Tw /Span<>> BDC /T1_3 1 Tf 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. EMC A lawyer representing Spencer spoke next. [(W)5 (ithout Conscience,)]TJ Other statements came from children now grown. 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. [(Langman, P)90 (. 0.003 Tc 0.082 Tw 8.6057 0 0 8.5 336 548.5 Tm ( )Tj ( )Tj 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. 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.. /T1_3 1 Tf I dont like Mondays, she famously replied when asked her motive. At the time, mass shootings were rare in America, although there had been occasional gun attacks on school premises. The article kept my attention the entire time. What about your mother? the commissioner asked. At least one of Spencers victims agrees. Status In a prison two-and-a-half hours from the scene of the UCSB murders sits the killer who started it all, with the first high-profile school shooting more than three decades ago. /Span<>> BDC 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. We were all very upset and shocked on the way to the hospital, because no one would tell us Michaels condition. representative added that Spencer had complained to the police negotiator that the custodian had tried to get everybody off the school grounds. The author also focused, not just on the shooting itself, but also the aftermath that centered on Brenda Spencer. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ Victims He was then a part of the Allied occupying forces in northern Germany. The parole board chairman said that as she had not previously told any prison staff about the allegations, he doubted whether they were true. (78)Tj [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ He is one of many opposing her release on grounds that she remains a risk to the people of his city. 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. As she continued shooting, SWAT officers surrounded the house and evacuated the school from the rear. [(: )0.5 (Rowman )0.5 (and )0.5 (Little\037eld,)3 ( )]TJ )Tj EMC 0.38 Tw /Span<>> BDC (95)Tj [(Scho)-5 (ol Sho)-5 (oters: Und)-4.9 (erstanding H)23 (igh Scho)-5 (ol, College, )]TJ Surprisingly, the suspect was identified as a 16-year-old girl, Brenda Ann Spencer, who was living across the street from Grover Cleveland Elementary. EMC -2.118 -1.529 Td EMC ( )Tj -2.118 -1.529 Td The 1982 Japanese-American documentary film The Killing of America depicts the incident. Police were told she had fantasised about being a sniper and would hunt birds around the neighbourhood. 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". In 2001 Brenda accused her father of having drunkenly subjected her to beatings and sexual abuse. By
/T1_4 1 Tf -2.118 -1.529 Td Adobe InDesign CC 2015 (Macintosh) EMC EMC She was asked if any adults had seen danger signs before the shooting. Spencer fired at him but missed as well. ( )Tj When we arrived, we found him not in the hospital room, but down in the basement, dead. EMC This livens up the day.. /T1_4 1 Tf She was sentenced to concurrent terms of 25 years to life in prison. /Span<>> BDC Going to school should be a safe place and not a place to fear. At various parole hearings since the first in 1993, she has blamed her father and also the influence of drugs for the shooting. She was later diagnosed with depression and epilepsy and received medication to treat her mental issues. A former student named Cam Miller attended the hearing in person and offered the last statement. [( p. 7)30 (3. )]TJ Across the road from Grover Cleveland Elementary school in San Diego, California, 16 year old Brenda Ann Spencer observed elementary children prepare for class from her bedroom window. 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. )]TJ ( )Tj ( p. ( )Tj The shooting at school was over, and the murderer, frightened of the consequences, hid in the house. EMC (89)Tj Location )Tj EMC (96)Tj Most can agree with former FBI profiler Candice DeLong's remarks that Brenda's father bears responsibility for what happened that day by buying her the gun. EMC Brenda Spencer She indulged in drugs and often skipped classes at school. ( )Tj 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. And every time I had tried suicide in the previous year I had screwed it up.. /T1_5 1 Tf 0.298 Tw /Span<>> BDC 79, 80. Principal Wragg was fatally shot in the heart. EMC (81)Tj /T1_5 1 Tf Deadly Women Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. View popular celebrities life details, birth signs and real ages. )]TJ /T1_3 1 Tf 0.358 Tw /Span<>> BDC This was a horrible event that resulted in two lives lost I have never heard of this case before this article. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td EMC 2016-02-11T19:23:05-05:00 Oddest of all, he married his daughters 17-year-old prison cellmate and brought her to live in the house from which Spencer had shot at the school. FBI profiler Candice DeLong says doll mutilation is something that has been observed in children and teenagers who latter become killers or stalkers. One survivor of the 1979 shooting described herself as "shocked, saddened, horrified" by the eerie similarities to their own traumatic experience. EMC EMC (73)Tj In late January 1979, Brenda Spencer killed two adults and injured eight children and one adult because of her hate for Mondays. 0.356 Tw /Span<>> BDC The principal and a custodian were killed; eight children and a police officer were injured. (68)Tj Spencer signed up as soon as she hit 55. However, according to the rules of imprisonment, the next time, giving her the right to request pardon, will come in 2019. [(1)2.3 (02)]TJ EMC [(H)23 (are, R. )]TJ /T1_5 1 Tf A plaque and flagpole were erected at Cleveland Elementary in memory of the shooting victims. Brenda Spencer was sixteen years old when she shot and killed two people at a school in California. She grew up relatively poor and spent most of her early life with her father, Wallace Spencer, with whom she had a turbulent relationship. [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 p. Dorothy who goes by Dot recounts Brenda as a child who was "very active, always happy, a good child, well behaved, [and] never had any problems in school" (Dower, 2016). 0.184 Tw /Span<>> BDC /T1_3 1 Tf For two murders and an attack with firearms, she was sentenced to life imprisonment. EMC T* xmp.id:9feab23b-7ab8-4f0b-91a8-e36513e1ffad [(www)80 (.scho)-5 (olsho)-5 (ot)-10 (ers.info. "I don't like Mondays"Possible depression She killed. 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. 7)30 (3, 75. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ /T1_3 1 Tf 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. )Tj Copyright 2016 by Peter Langman, Ph.D. www.schoolshooters.info Nothing was different for Brenda Ann Spencer; she was one of the girls who typically hated Mondays. EMC -2.118 -1.529 Td This is a very interesting article and also very relevant to today, as we hear about shootings quite often. -2.118 -1.529 Td This article brings to light the issue of gun control. EMC The daughter spoke of scattering her fathers ashes in the desert. ( p. [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 pp. It was completely uncontrollable., There was also a statement by a parent, Francis Stile, whose two daughters attended the school. 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. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ She didnt realise she was shooting at schoolchildren, mistaking them for birds. Every new school shooting by a teenager reinforces the argument that she was not uniquely wicked or crazed. ( )Tj ( )Tj ( )Tj Spencer showed no remorse in her crime; her full explanation of her actions was "I don't like Mondays; this livens up the day. /T1_4 1 Tf 1.647 0 Td -2.118 -1.529 Td [( p. 77)70 (. /T1_4 1 Tf (83)Tj But to a San Diego elementary school, and to a troubled sixteen year old, Monday, January 29, 1979 held an even more distressing meaning. Ugh, its Monday are the words that usually follow the arrival of the most dreaded day of the week. 0 Tc 0 Tw 0.471 0 Td /T1_4 1 Tf Spencers absent mother, Dot, claimed she suspected father and daughter had an unhealthy relationship but insisted she couldnt afford a lawyer to fight for custody. Debra Sevey, Subsequent Parole Consideration Hearing of Brenda Spencer, (Capitol Electronic Reporting, 2001), 15-16. ( )Tj Theme powered by WordPress. Under the terms of her indeterminate sentence, Spencer became eligible for hearings to consider her suitability for parole in 1993. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ
. Im a little more grateful for my normal Mondays now! -0.05 Tc 0.456 Tw /Span<>> BDC -2.118 -1.529 Td She answered a reporters question on why she fired the gun, by saying I dont like Mondays. 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 converted EMC ( )Tj 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. /T1_4 1 Tf The school was closed in 1983, along with a dozen other schools around the city, due to declining enrollment. /Span<>> BDC True )]TJ 0.4 Tw /Span<>> BDC January 29, 1979 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.
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