( )Tj What if they got the idea from what I did?. ( )Tj )]TJ 21, 50. The daughter spoke of scattering her fathers ashes in the desert. 0.177 Tw /Span<>> BDC 0.002 Tc 0.176 Tw /Span<>> BDC He blames total negligence and unbelievably bad parenting by her father in giving her the gun. ( p. Brenda Ann Spencer - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I wasnt specifically aiming at people, she said. Even as an adult, he was gripped by an abiding fear of leaving his back exposed in restaurants he always sits with his back to the wall. ( )Tj The cellmate looked so much like Spencer, even local police officers believed Brenda had been released early from prison. One survivor of the 1979 shooting described herself as "shocked, saddened, horrified" by the eerie similarities to their own traumatic experience. I had never heard of this incident but what shocks me the most about this article was how young she was. [(\223H)23 (earing 2001,)80 (\224 pp. (99)Tj 0.298 Tw /Span<>> BDC She said she did it for the fun of it and that just gave me chills. [(H)23 (are, )]TJ 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". The most terrible thing in all this story was the announcement of the reasons for shooting from the mouth of the murderer. She had asked her father for a radio. 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.. Age 16, she was 5'2" (157cm) and had bright red hair. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ )]TJ 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td The commissioner asked if she remembered the police coming, and she said she did. [(T)-44.9 (he Cr)-19.9 (iminal P)10.1 (ersonalit)-34.9 (y)20.1 (: V)30 (olume\037)50.7 (1:)-3 ( )]TJ T* /T1_4 1 Tf -2.118 -1.529 Td Her reasons for doing this school shooting makes me so mad and upset. The parole board chairman said that as she had not previously told any prison staff about the allegations, he doubted whether they were true. The second victim, Michael Sucher, got his bullet, trying to save his fallen colleague. When Stevens realized that she gave him her own address, he recognized what was going on and requested an interview while another staff member informed the police of the situation. -2.118 -1.529 Td /T1_5 1 Tf 88. In 2005, a San Diego deputy district attorney cited an incident of self-harm from four years earlier when Spencer's girlfriend was released from jail, as showing that she was psychotic and unfit to be released. ( )Tj [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 p. 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. /T1_3 1 Tf [(\223H)23 (earing 1994,)80 (\224 p. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ [(W)5 (ithout Conscience: T)-45 (he Disturbing W)40 (orld of the Psycho)]TJ No, I wasnt feeling good, she replied. [You] put your gun down, the commissioner observed. She recalled lying in the nurses office, bleeding as bullets crashed through the window. Spencer signed up as soon as she hit 55. When asked why she said "I hate Mondays" prompting the Boomtown Rats hit song. /T1_4 1 Tf ( )Tj It's just that the girl at the time had fun. -2.118 -1.529 Td by Michael Thomas Barry. 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. They later had a daughter together. [(\223H)23 (earing 1994,)80 (\224 pp. 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. With every school shooting, I feel Im partially responsible, Brenda Ann Spencer told the parole board back in 2001. Spencer, an introverted and scrawny tomboy, had a history of petty theft, drug abuse and school truancy. endstream endobj 18 0 obj <> endobj 19 0 obj <> endobj 20 0 obj <> endobj 25 0 obj <> endobj 22 0 obj <> endobj 23 0 obj <> endobj 47 0 obj <> endobj 48 0 obj <> endobj 49 0 obj <>stream EMC ( )Tj EMC EMC The song never mentions her name and Geldof admitted that most fans thought it was about how having a hangover made Mondays unbearable. )Tj Her behaviour including telling a friend she wanted to kill someone, probably a police officer became increasingly disturbing. 0 tv_nwa_ J endstream endobj 50 0 obj <>stream /Span<>> BDC I dont think the shooting should have been the choice at all, she could have gone to her mom if she had some problems. /Span<>> BDC /T1_4 1 Tf 0.02 Tc -0.02 Tw 9.5 0 0 9.5 48 42 Tm /T1_4 1 Tf A 16-year-old girl, Brenda Spencer, who lived in a house across the street from the school, was convicted of the shootings. -2.118 -1.529 Td After her parents separated, she lived with her father, Wallace Spencer, in poverty. 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. EMC ( )Tj 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. (70)Tj While there, a journalist somehow found her home phone number and called. Little did they know, however, that across the street, sixteen-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer was aiming her .22 caliber semiautomatic rifle right at societys ultimate refuge, the elementary school, and its surroundings. /T1_3 1 Tf ( )Tj He suggested that the testing of the time may have simply failed to detect the intoxicants. 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. As of December2015, she has been unsuccessful at four parole board hearings. 40. On Monday, January 29, 1979 started out as a normal day. [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 p. ( p. 0.259 Tw /Span<>> BDC From 2005 to 2017, it housed the Magnolia Science Academy, a public charter middle school serving students in grades 68. 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. 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. proof:pdf 0.038 Tw 2.118 0 Td 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. 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. As Spencer acknowledged at one of her parole hearings: With every school shooting, I feel Im partially responsible. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ She did it, she said, because she didn't like Mondays. -2.118 -1.529 Td I felt like he wanted me to kill myself, she said later. 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. California rarely grants parole for people convicted of murder, but it hasnt stopped Brenda from trying. /Span<>> BDC I hope that somehow my dad and Mike know this.. 17-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer leaves the courthouse in Santa Ana, California, escorted by sheriff's deputies Waking on the single mattress she shared with her father in the living room of their squalid suburban California home, Brenda Spencer remembers starting that day by taking her epilepsy medicine, washed down with whisky. -2.118 -1.529 Td Both girls had witnessed the death of the principal and the custodian. ( )Tj [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 pp. Brenda also gets two mattresses and pillows, three blankets and is the priority for the coveted bottom bunk. Brenda loved to listen to stories with a tragic end, she liked the details of the bloody murders. 25\22626. They cite the considerable progress she has made in rehabilitating herself in prison. 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. [The father] then went on and had a sexual relationship with her and married her, the lawyer alleged. The likelihood of a successful parole hearing is slim at best. ( )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. 58. By then, police were responding to the school shooting. ( )Tj /T1_3 1 Tf [(www)80 (.scho)-5 (olsho)-5 (ot)-10 (ers.info. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td (82)Tj She did it, she said, because she didn't like Mondays. /T1_4 1 Tf [( p. 207)70 (. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ 79, 80. 0.46 Tw /Span<>> BDC This was a horrible event that resulted in two lives lost I have never heard of this case before this article. /T1_3 1 Tf /T1_5 1 Tf 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. [(W)5 (ithout Conscience,)]TJ /T1_4 1 Tf ( )Tj /Span<>> BDC In prison, Spencer was diagnosed as an epileptic and received medication to treat her epilepsy and depression. /T1_3 1 Tf /Span<>> BDC ( )Tj 1 0 obj <>>> endobj 2 0 obj <>stream /Span<>> BDC )Tj )Tj One was from Wilfred Suchar, son of the murdered custodian, Michael Suchar. /T1_1 1 Tf Many are convinced the other killers were inspired by her. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ The issue is in plain sight but nobody in the right places of power wants to say it because its easier to point fingers. 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 /T1_3 1 Tf Thirty years later, Miller beheld her in another proceeding and asked the board not to parole her. The ruthless shooter continued shooting until the police blocked the school entrance by moving a garbage truck in front of it. ( p. /Span<>> BDC /T1_3 1 Tf But to a San Diego elementary school, and to a troubled sixteen year old, Monday, January 29, 1979 held an even more distressing meaning. 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. Brenda Spencer /T1_3 1 Tf /Span<>> BDC 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. EMC EMC The issue is not owning guns, the issue is mental health. B renda Ann Spencer was born on April 3, 1962. /T1_5 1 Tf 0.766 0.053 Td 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 . Nothing was different for Brenda Ann Spencer; she was one of the girls who typically hated Mondays. She had submitted a written statement in which she alleged that her father had begun fondling her when she was 9 and had sexually assaulted her virtually every night. Brenda Spencer and Laura Troiani parole hearings - YouTube [(V)45 (ersion 1.0 \()13 (11 F)35 (ebruary 2016)8.1 (\))]TJ -0.05 Tc 0.456 Tw /Span<>> BDC For Christmas in 1978, her father, Wallace Spencer, gave her a semi-automatic .22 caliber rifle. Why pick the school across the street? the commissioner asked. Three shots rang out. /T1_3 1 Tf ( )Tj And every time I had tried suicide in the previous year I had screwed it up.. The number of shots fired and the number of vital hits speaks of incredibly accurate, directed shooting, and these were moving targets.. EMC Shooting (.22 caliber rifle) 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. A person can be attending school and be gunned down.. There was also a statement from the principals daughter. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td EMC /Span<>> BDC 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. 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. EMC Full name is Brenda Ann Spencer. I cannot reconcile the fact that Brenda claimed she started shooting just for the fun of it with the trauma she probably experienced in her childhood because both are terrible and inexcusable acts. A 16-year-old girl, Brenda Ann Spencer (born April 3, 1962), who lived in a house across the street from the school, was convicted of the shootings. This is such a sad case because those kids did not deserve to go through something so traumatizing. Brenda Spencer is however, America's first female school shooter. [( p. 87)70 (, 86. /T1_5 1 Tf Mass murderer up for parole 40 years after she opened fire on school to EMC Brenda Ann Spencer has a cenotaph in Fairlawn Cemetery Stillwater Oklahoma. Mental health needs to be addressed everywhere and not just when someone acts out like this. ( )Tj Her father still lives in the house where the shooting took place. ( )Tj ( )Tj EMC [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ Her ashes are to be buried at a later date. 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. Burton Regg - the teacher, who was waiting for the children, was killed almost immediately. 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. /T1_4 1 Tf She injured eight children and a police officer, and killed the principal and a custodian. Nine counts of attempted murder. 0.177 Tw /Span<>> BDC EMC Youre shooting these people as they become targets, and yet you told me that you didnt intend to hit anyone.. 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. /Span<>> BDC 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. Under the terms of her indeterminate sentence, Spencer became eligible for hearings to consider her suitability for parole in 1993. 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. /T1_4 1 Tf /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. )]TJ 0.355 Tw /Span<>> BDC 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. /T1_4 1 Tf He said his wife had heard on the radio of a shooting at the school and called him at work. )Tj ( p. The head custodian, Michael Suchar, known as Mr. Peter Langman The Grover Cleveland Elementary School shooting took place on January 29, 1979, at a public elementary school in San Diego, California, United States. However, I find their reasons to be interesting to learn about. [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 p. )]TJ (61)Tj 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. EMC Going to school should be a safe place and not a place to fear. )]TJ "I don't like Mondays"Possible depression /T1_4 1 Tf 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. 0 Tc 0 Tw 0.471 0 Td I still cant.. Im a little more grateful for my normal Mondays now! /T1_3 1 Tf She shot him because, by her own words, he was making it more difficult for her to shoot the kids, the representative said. ( )Tj Other statements came from children now grown. Spencer later said, "I asked for a radio and he bought me a gun." 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 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. /T1_3 1 Tf The police, now aware of where the shots were coming from, were able evacuate the children and obstruct Spencers line of sight while trying to negotiate with her. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ /T1_4 1 Tf EMC EMC EMC A hunting enthusiast, he had enough ammunition in the house for a small army, according to one of his daughters classmates. She described going to the school to collect her fathers personal effects. Any inmate over 55 years can join the club, which offers its members special privileges. Spencer showed no remorse in her crime; her full explanation of her actions was "I don't like Mondays; this livens up the day. Do not leave her indifferent and stories about violence. ( )Tj She, because of the language and cultural differences in the United States, always counted on him to manage their affairs. Cam [Charles] Miller was seven when she shot him in the back. (91)Tj -2.118 -1.529 Td 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 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. EMC [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ So, realising he was speaking to her, he asked what her motive was. Children were going to school as the birds chirped. -2.118 -1.529 Td I dont like Mondays, she told him. /T1_4 1 Tf They had a child, and the little girl attended Buell's preschool. Grover Cleveland Elementary School, San Diego, CA. /T1_5 1 Tf EMC A)39.7 (vail)]TJ A Case of the Mondays: Brenda Spencer and the Cleveland Elementary Spencer has also stated in a letter from prison that she experiences grand mal seizures that she has to counteract with medications.5 Such a brain injury would definitely be a precursor to epilepsy, which is two to four times more common among violent offenders than the public.6 The lack of treatment she received for this disease, to some, proves the neglect that she experienced from her family and in her childhood. -2.118 -1.529 Td EMC -0.196 Tw /Span<>> BDC /T1_3 1 Tf /T1_4 1 Tf ( )Tj 0 Tw 18.39 -0.053 Td , money, salary, income, and assets. 0 Tc 0 Tw 0.471 0 Td We were all very upset and shocked on the way to the hospital, because no one would tell us Michaels condition. )]TJ EMC ( )Tj /T1_4 1 Tf EMC