She can only ask for pardon after 25 years in prison. )]TJ On January 29, 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Spencer opened fired from her home across the street from Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego. /T1_5 1 Tf /Span<>> BDC EMC /Span<>> BDC ( )Tj My question is, will there be another boring Monday for her? he asked. Cam [Charles] Miller was seven when she shot him in the back. What about your mother? the commissioner asked. /T1_4 1 Tf ( )Tj She has said she also does not recall telling a cop, It was a lot of fun seeing children shot.. /T1_4 1 Tf -0.05 Tc 0.456 Tw /Span<>> BDC EMC Some lawyers involved in the case believe she will soon succeed in a parole application. EMC -0.03 Tc 0.537 Tw /Span<>> BDC Brenda Spencer was born April 3rd, 1962 to her mother and father, Dorothy and Wallace Spencer. She answered a reporters question on why she fired the gun, by saying I dont like Mondays. He was then a part of the Allied occupying forces in northern Germany. The issue is in plain sight but nobody in the right places of power wants to say it because its easier to point fingers. During a 2009 parole hearing, her most recent, she insisted that she had not intended to shoot anybody. 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. /T1_1 1 Tf Dates EMC /T1_4 1 Tf I dont think the shooting should have been the choice at all, she could have gone to her mom if she had some problems. ( )Tj )]TJ )Tj She did it, she said, because she didn't like Mondays. [(H)23 (are, )]TJ ( )Tj 2016-02-11T19:23:05-05:00 Brenda pled guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon. -2.118 -1.529 Td 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td ( )Tj The shooting was already on the news before Brenda stopped shooting. Eight students and a police officer were wounded. When asked why she said "I hate Mondays" prompting the Boomtown Rats hit song. After several hours, Brenda Spencer surrendered her weapon and several rounds of ammunition, and was subsequently arrested. (81)Tj Brenda aimed the rifle at the schoolyard from her bedroom. 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. [(H)23 (are, )]TJ ( )Tj During the uninterrupted shooting, two teachers were killed, who saved their children at the cost of their lives. By then, police were responding to the school shooting. 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." She had asked her father for a radio. 8.5 0 0 8.5 336 571.5 Tm 0.02 Tc -0.02 Tw 9.5 0 0 9.5 48 42 Tm This was a horrible event that resulted in two lives lost I have never heard of this case before this article. According to The Daily Beast, she would later claim that her father was abusive toward her and that her mother "just wasn't there." [(V)45 (ersion 1.0 \()13 (11 F)35 (ebruary 2016)8.1 (\))]TJ I hope that somehow my dad and Mike know this.. Four times the murderer asked for parole, and four times she was refused. (94)Tj California rarely grants parole for people convicted of murder, but it hasnt stopped Brenda from trying. He recently pointed out that she cried frequently at her last parole eligibility hearing, in 2016, demonstrating what he called her continued emotional instability. /T1_3 1 Tf /T1_5 1 Tf 0.521 Tw /Span<>> BDC The pain these children must have felt is unforgivable. /Span<>> BDC (MD)Tj -2.118 -1.529 Td They slept on a single mattress on the living room floor, with empty alcohol bottles throughout the house. ( pp. /T1_3 1 Tf After a 20-minute shooting spree, eight children and three adults had been hit, among them a police officer who was shot through the neck. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td ( )Tj /T1_5 1 Tf Adobe InDesign CC 2015 (Macintosh) ( )Tj /T1_3 1 Tf 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. Behind the scenes 0.237 Tw /Span<>> BDC (92)Tj 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td ( )Tj As of December2015, she has been unsuccessful at four parole board hearings. )]TJ Her father left home for work around 7 oclock in the morning. [(Langman, P)90 (. ( )Tj Being from San Diego, California this article sparked my interest. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ ( )Tj I find it really interesting to build this article and its literary resources to hook the reader. I was greatly comforted when the policemen arrived to carry me away. Nothing can console me ever.. 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. 0.259 Tw /Span<>> BDC She described arriving at school and hearing shots and seeing the principal and the custodian lying dead. Police later found half empty alcohol bottles throughout the house. Thirty years later, Miller beheld her in another proceeding and asked the board not to parole her. /T1_4 1 Tf The place he loved the most. /Span<>> BDC EMC EMC The Brenda Spencer Murder Case, which was published in 2012, and is the single best source I am aware of regarding Spencer. 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. /Span<>> BDC , money, salary, income, and assets. /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. At parole hearings, the panel reminds her of statements during the shooting. ( )Tj A single .22 caliber shot entered his back and out of Cam's chest. 0.298 Tw /Span<>> BDC 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 . Eight schoolchildren and a policeman who ran into the shots were injured. At least three of those children had abdominal wounds. 2016-02-11T19:23:05-05:00 Mary Rintoul aged nine when she was shot in the attack has mixed feelings about letting her out. She then spoke words that have gained ever more truth after ever more mass shootings. This livens up the day." 0.38 Tw /Span<>> BDC EMC 75. The representative further reported that blood and urine samples taken after Spencers arrest tested clean. 0.476 Tw /Span<>> BDC [(\223H)23 (earing 1994,)80 (\224 p. 93. ( )Tj In late January 1979, Brenda Spencer killed two adults and injured eight children and one adult because of her hate for Mondays. )]TJ -2.118 -1.529 Td EMC The article kept my attention the entire time. It was the perfect senseless act and this was the perfect senseless reason for doing it.. /T1_3 1 Tf EMC Status Why pick the school across the street? the commissioner asked. -2.118 -1.529 Td They cite the considerable progress she has made in rehabilitating herself in prison. Spencer remains in prison despite parole hearings. That had been just before Christmas. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. \223Charles Andrew W)5 (illiams: S)23 (orting Out the Contra)]TJ -2.118 -1.529 Td /Span<>> BDC 42. /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. Mental health needs to be addressed everywhere and not just when someone acts out like this. /T1_3 1 Tf 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. Spencer signed up as soon as she hit 55. )]TJ /T1_4 1 Tf Spared the death penalty because of her age, Spencer was sentenced to two terms of 25 years to life in prison, running concurrently and with the chance of parole. ( )Tj What is brenda spencer doing now? 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 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). The victims are not only those killed, but the survivors who live the tragedy for the rest of their lives.. They slept on a single mattress on the living room floor. The second victim, Michael Sucher, got his bullet, trying to save his fallen colleague. 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. Brenda Spencer's Mugshot taken in 1996 | Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. After her parents separated, she lived with her father, Wallace Spencer, in virtual poverty. I dont know why he bought me a gun, she said. 1 0 obj
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The tragedy that occurred in the primary school Grover Cleveland, most striking is that the murderer took away the lives of people for fun. (61)Tj [(H)23 (are, )]TJ The court sentenced her to life in prison with a possibility of parole after 25 years. Instead, he gave her a Ruger semi-automatic rifle and 500 rounds of ammunition for Christmas. EMC On January 17, 1989, almost ten years after the events at San Diego's Grover Cleveland Elementary, there was another shooting at a school named Grover Cleveland Elementary, this one in Stockton, California. The parole board chairman said that as she had not previously told any prison staff about the allegations, he doubted whether they were true. 0.238 Tw /Span<>> BDC 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. Im a little more grateful for my normal Mondays now! She grew up relatively poor and spent most of her early life with her father, Wallace Spencer, with whom she had a turbulent relationship. )]TJ ( p. 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_3 1 Tf 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. You hit one of those fellows, too, the commissioner noted. In another letter she wrote in prison, she stated that her father had done everything a person could do to another person. EMC She said she had been under the influence of alcohol, pot, and downers. /T1_3 1 Tf Only in San Diego, the city where the tragedy happened to spare the feelings of local residents, the song was banned for several years. 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. 0.184 Tw /Span<>> BDC (60)Tj [(W)5 (ithout Conscience,)]TJ 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. /Span<>> BDC /T1_4 1 Tf [( pp. ( )Tj When we arrived, we found him not in the hospital room, but down in the basement, dead. 2016-02-11T19:23:05-05:00 ( )Tj 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. ( )Tj EMC 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td As Spencer acknowledged at one of her parole hearings: With every school shooting, I feel Im partially responsible. )]TJ Charged as an adult, she pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon, and was given an indefinite sentence. Brenda Ann Spencer. Brenda threatened with new shots, so for such a long time she could not be forced to surrender to the police. 0.356 Tw /Span<>> BDC ( p. The likelihood of a successful parole hearing is slim at best. In December 1978, Spencers probation officer recommended her being admitted to a mental facility, but her father refused to give permission. EMC ( )Tj -2.118 -1.529 Td -2.118 -1.529 Td /Span<>> BDC 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. [(Langman, P)90 (. 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. Normally, very few people convicted on a charge of murder were able to obtain parole in California before 2011. I dont remember aiming at anybody, Spencer insisted. application/pdf 21.746 0 Td 22. EMC /T1_3 1 Tf 0.007 Tc -0.126 Tw /Span<>> BDC )Tj 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. These are the other shootings reported on: the Columbine High School shooting, the shootings at Simon's Rock College, the Bethel Regional High School shooting, and the Pearl High School shooting. ( p. 89. /T1_4 1 Tf She said the psychiatrist had recommended she be hospitalized as a danger to herself and to others. /T1_3 1 Tf The history of criminology has many stories about the shootings, which are arranged by schoolchildren. [(1)2.3 (02)]TJ EMC )]TJ 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ /T1_3 1 Tf ( )Tj ( )Tj The Lifetime Movies, series Killer Kids released an episode "Deadly Compulsion" depicting Spencer's crimes, first air date: September 3, 2014. 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. She had a parole hearing in September 2021, but she waived the hearing for one in 2022. She is from California. They later had a daughter together. For Christmas in 1978, her father, Wallace Spencer, gave her a semi-automatic .22 caliber rifle. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ I was 9 years old when I was shot, he began. 12.894 0 Td ( )Tj 72. 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. 21, 50. \223Rob)-5.3 (ert Benjamin Smith: An Analysis,)79.7 (\224 2016. I wasnt specifically aiming at people, she said. Debra Sevey, Subsequent Parole Consideration Hearing of Brenda Spencer, (Capitol Electronic Reporting, 2001), 15-16. She, because of the language and cultural differences in the United States, always counted on him to manage their affairs. She described the shooter, a sixteen year old, and the shooters address. -gG1dd[I
mg=:a -2.118 -1.529 Td Murderer Brenda Spencer opened fire at a San Diego elementary school from a window in her home, leaving two dead and nine more shot Famously told reporter her motive was that she 'didn't like. ( )Tj He had gone to his parents home to tell his mother, Valentina. Theme powered by WordPress. She injured eight children. (66)Tj EMC Brenda Spencer: Sorting Out the Contradictions Let alone an elementary school shooting. 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.
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BT 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. EMC Her father still lives in the house where the shooting took place. She was asked if any adults had seen danger signs before the shooting. People are recognising that todays young are capable of doing anything, he said.
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