The issue is not owning guns, the issue is mental health. ( )Tj What if they got the idea from what I did?. ( )Tj 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td 24\22625. [You] put your gun down, the commissioner observed. 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. EMC ( p. ( )Tj /T1_3 1 Tf 20 years after the shooting, Spencer made claims that her father sexually abused her. )Tj -2.118 -1.529 Td Because I wanted to die, she said. What if they got the idea from what I did?. ( )Tj I had never heard of this incident but what shocks me the most about this article was how young she was. /Span<>> BDC You didnt go to school that day? the commissioner asked. 1)40.1 (3, 14. /T1_4 1 Tf She is from California. 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. /T1_4 1 Tf Youre shooting these people as they become targets, and yet you told me that you didnt intend to hit anyone.. ( )Tj 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. /T1_3 1 Tf [( p. 87)70 (, 86. 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. 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. -2.118 -1.529 Td 32. (69)Tj /T1_4 1 Tf EMC Brenda Ann Spencer. /T1_3 1 Tf (74)Tj )Tj /Span<>> BDC from application/x-indesign to application/pdf As of May 2020, she remains in prison. 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." Her life and career after prison. /T1_4 1 Tf 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. /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_4 1 Tf )]TJ /T1_4 1 Tf A plaque and flagpole were erected at Cleveland Elementary in memory of the shooting victims. [(\223H)23 (earing 2005,)80 (\224 p. Brenda proceeded to wound seven more children with stunning accuracy. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ 35 years later, Brenda Ann Spencer, who killed two and wounded eight, faced her victims in a parole hearing. Age 16, she was 5'2" (157cm) and had bright red hair. The commissioner inquired how many rounds she had fired, and she said she did not recall. 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. ( )Tj At the time, mass shootings were rare in America, although there had been occasional gun attacks on school premises. (92)Tj [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ )]TJ ( Lanham, )Tj 0 Tc 0 Tw 0.471 0 Td School Shooter And because she never had to be cross-examined in court, her facetious remark about hating Mondays remained her only explanation for the shooting. 0.521 Tw /Span<>> BDC The composition was released a month after the tragedy and immediately became popular. One was from Wilfred Suchar, son of the murdered custodian, Michael Suchar. /T1_3 1 Tf EMC This article did a good job of explaining what had happened that day and what her motive was. -2.118 -1.529 Td Police proceeded to move a garbage truck in front of Spencer's line of fire. 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. . Brenda Spencer was born April 3rd, 1962 to her mother and father, Dorothy and Wallace Spencer. Including shooting each other in school., The comments below have not been moderated, By According to court documents she would open fire from her home aiming at young children waiting to get into the school. /T1_3 1 Tf 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. Her ashes are to be buried at a later date. Geldof has later mentioned that, "[Spencer] wrote to me saying 'she was glad she'd done it because I'd made her famous,' which is not a good thing to live with. 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. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td Any inmate over 55 years can join the club, which offers its members special privileges. 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. ( )Tj [(H)23 (are, )]TJ xmp.id:9feab23b-7ab8-4f0b-91a8-e36513e1ffad ( )Tj , updated As of December 2015, shed been denied parole four times. 0.259 Tw /Span<>> BDC Actor Brenda loved to listen to stories with a tragic end, she liked the details of the bloody murders. Brenda Spencer She indulged in drugs and often skipped classes at school. Incarcerated After all of the shooting was over the Principal and Janitor were dead, eight students and one police officer was injured. representative added that Spencer had complained to the police negotiator that the custodian had tried to get everybody off the school grounds. This is such a sad case because those kids did not deserve to go through something so traumatizing. /T1_4 1 Tf 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. 78, 80. Spencer subsequently pleaded guilty to two counts of murder. -2.118 -1.529 Td At least three of those children had abdominal wounds. The article kept my attention the entire time. The uninjured looked around confused as to what was happening. Spenser's relatives tried in vain to prevent the release of the hit. )]TJ She grew up relatively poor and spent most of her early life with her father, Wallace Spencer, with whom she had a turbulent relationship. /T1_3 1 Tf )Tj (82)Tj At various parole hearings since the first in 1993, she has blamed her father and also the influence of drugs for the shooting. A comment so flippant, sarcastic and callous as "I don't like Mondays" as a motivation for shooting up a school tells FBI profiler Candice DeLong that Brenda Spencer was not mentally ill at the time of the shooting and knew what she was doing. ( )Tj The D.A. ( )Tj ( )Tj 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. EMC I know saying Im sorry doesnt make it all right,Spencer told the parole board in 2001. 52\22653. ( p. ( )Tj /T1_5 1 Tf -2.118 -1.529 Td The commissioner said they would get back to all that. 0.4 Tw /Span<>> BDC This was a horrible event that resulted in two lives lost I have never heard of this case before this article. Great article but terrible circumstances. (98)Tj Brenda also gets two mattresses and pillows, three blankets and is the priority for the coveted bottom bunk. /T1_4 1 Tf FBI profiler Candice DeLong says doll mutilation is something that has been observed in children and teenagers who latter become killers or stalkers. )]TJ ( )Tj Brenda Spencers name is largely forgotten now. A police officer (age28), responding to a call for assistance during the incident, was wounded in the neck as he arrived. . Her father still lives in the house where the shooting took place. EMC School custodian Michael Suchar ran out in an attempt to pull the still-alive Wragg to safety. ET She shot him because, by her own words, he was making it more difficult for her to shoot the kids, the representative said. The search showed that there was a bank of beer in the house, there was a bottle of whiskey, but the policemen who detained the criminal stated that she was sober. /T1_5 1 Tf They cite the considerable progress she has made in rehabilitating herself in prison. EMC 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. /T1_3 1 Tf 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. 89. endstream endobj 3 0 obj <> endobj 5 0 obj <>/ExtGState<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text]>>/TrimBox[0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0]/Type/Page>> endobj 6 0 obj <>/ExtGState<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text]>>/TrimBox[0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0]/Type/Page>> endobj 7 0 obj <>/ExtGState<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text]>>/TrimBox[0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0]/Type/Page>> endobj 8 0 obj <>/ExtGState<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text]>>/TrimBox[0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0]/Type/Page>> endobj 9 0 obj <>/ExtGState<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text]>>/TrimBox[0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0]/Type/Page>> endobj 10 0 obj <>/ExtGState<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text]>>/TrimBox[0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0]/Type/Page>> endobj 11 0 obj <>/ExtGState<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text]>>/TrimBox[0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0]/Type/Page>> endobj 12 0 obj <>/ExtGState<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text]>>/TrimBox[0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0]/Type/Page>> endobj 13 0 obj <>/ExtGState<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text]>>/TrimBox[0.0 0.0 612.0 792.0]/Type/Page>> endobj 33 0 obj <>stream This livens up the day.. She described the shooter, a sixteen year old, and the shooters address. But the link with the San Diego shooting was soon spotted by Spencer herself. True [(H)23 (are, )]TJ 366. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td She then spoke words that have gained ever more truth after ever more mass shootings. EMC 0.415 Tw /Span<>> BDC For all his ex-clients notoriety, Michael McGlinn insists the day she is released is getting close. ( )Tj [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]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. I wasnt specifically aiming at people, she said. ( p. EMC EMC Blue was Spencer's favorite color so he would be her first victim. /Span<>> BDC /T1_4 1 Tf 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. 0.298 Tw /Span<>> BDC His life and death detailed, Where is Amy Fisher now? /T1_4 1 Tf ( )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. EMC 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." )]TJ 1 0 obj <>>> endobj 2 0 obj <>stream /T1_4 1 Tf 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. She was sentenced to concurrent terms of 25 years to life in prison. Brenda Spencer is however, America's first female school shooter. According to our Database, She has no children. 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. 0.237 Tw /Span<>> BDC Spencer was charged as an adult and pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon. (72)Tj [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ The only thing I was concentrating on was getting the police there so that they could shoot me, she said. /Span<>> BDC ( pp. [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ Thus, he had first- Then the inmate proceeded to commit one of the most notorious crimes in the history of this nation., He went on: At 8:30 a.m., the children were lining up to enter Cleveland Elementary School She picked up her .22 caliber, semiautomatic scoped rifle and began shooting children. /T1_4 1 Tf 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td This livens up the day." EMC /Span<>> BDC 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. She said she did it for the fun of it and that just gave me chills. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td ( )Tj Supporters, though, say she would not have shot anyone if her emotional problems had been addressed. When we arrived, we found him not in the hospital room, but down in the basement, dead. %PDF-1.7 % [(M)31 (urd)-5 (er C)30 (ase,)]TJ ( )Tj 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?. B renda Ann Spencer was born on April 3, 1962. [( p. 7)30 (3. She also killed custodian Mike Suchar (age 56) as he tried to pull a student to safety. Wallace Spencer got married to a woman younger than Spencer and had a daughter. 0 Tc 0 Tw 8.5 0 0 8.5 336 538.5 Tm 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. /T1_4 1 Tf -2.118 -1.529 Td EMC While I had briefly heard of this case before, the author provided more details than I had originally known. 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. -2.118 -1.529 Td 0.4 Tw /Span<>> BDC They later had a daughter together. [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ And apparently you two slept in the same bed?. 0.305 Tw /Span<>> BDC /T1_3 1 Tf She was asked if any adults had seen danger signs before the shooting. Children were going to school as the birds chirped. 17:46 EST 04 Apr 2019 )Tj /T1_3 1 Tf /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_5 1 Tf EMC Spencer was sentenced to only 25 years to life, despite the cruelty of her crime. When asked why she did the shooting, she responded: "I don't like Mondays. )]TJ She started her killing spree to liven up the day. Spencers murderous rampage might have claimed more victims had the police not obstructed her line of fire using a garbage truck. -0.024 Tw /Span<>> BDC Lane: F)10 (urther Re\024ec)-20 (tions,)80 (\224 2016. [The father] then went on and had a sexual relationship with her and married her, the lawyer alleged. /GS1 gs She had asked her father for a radio. That had been just before Christmas. As she continued shooting, SWAT officers surrounded the house and evacuated the school from the rear. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td /Span<>> BDC ( )Tj (79)Tj Principal Burton Wragg heard the shooting and ran out to get the children out of harms way, and the inmate shot him in the chest and killed him. )Tj )]TJ Spencer told police negotiators she had shot the children and staff because they made such easy targets. (77)Tj 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. [(WWW)55 (.SCHOOLSHOOTERS.INFO)]TJ 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. In the meantime, she will sit as inmate W14944 in the California Womens Institution, seeming to see no irony in having used heated metal to brand the words Courage and Pride across her chest. )]TJ 0.358 Tw /Span<>> BDC 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. At parole hearings, the panel reminds her of statements during the shooting. I was greatly comforted when the policemen arrived to carry me away. 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. /T1_3 1 Tf We must support them to maintain justice in our society and prevent school shootings from reoccurring ever again. ( p. 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. HtyTY Q" }]iwQQ*=L`:i_L{NSTw)k+CZ"Rhtn EMC What is brenda spencer doing now? 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td Some lawyers involved in the case believe she will soon succeed in a parole application. 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. EMC (88)Tj 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

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