That summer, Spencer, who was known to hunt birds in the neighborhood, was arrested for shooting out the windows of Grover Cleveland Elementary with a BB gun and for burglary. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td /T1_3 1 Tf EMC 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. She is currently single. 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 Tw T* No school or kids deserve to be shot up. He had been called to testify against her. /T1_5 1 Tf 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. -2.118 -1.529 Td 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. -2.118 -1.529 Td The shooting was already on the news before Brenda stopped shooting. EMC EMC The issue is not owning guns, the issue is mental health. Brenda Ann Spencer has a cenotaph in Fairlawn Cemetery Stillwater Oklahoma. -2.118 -1.529 Td )]TJ 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. 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. It was completely uncontrollable., There was also a statement by a parent, Francis Stile, whose two daughters attended the school. [( p. 27)70 (. Nobody at the school knew where the shots were coming from. /T1_4 1 Tf 0.355 Tw /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. Early Life Brenda's parents divorced when she was young and lived with her father. 25\22626. Spencer signed up as soon as she hit 55. EMC The tragedy that occurred in the primary school Grover Cleveland, most striking is that the murderer took away the lives of people for fun. View popular celebrities life details, birth signs and real ages. Psychologist Jonathan Fast introduces the idea that her brain injury, abuse, and the effects of it pushed her to her final actions. [(Langman, P)89.7 (. Its chorus of I dont like Mondays, I want to shoot the whole day down, along with lines such as The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload refer specifically to the twisted mind of Brenda Spencer. ( p. Actor -2.118 -1.529 Td 0.177 Tw /Span<>> BDC She shot him because, by her own words, he was making it more difficult for her to shoot the kids, the representative said. 0.415 Tw /Span<>> BDC 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. 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. Motive [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ On April 4, 1980, a day after her 18th birthday, she was sentenced to 25 years to life. EMC Brenda would go to claim sexual abuse by her father. 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. Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. Yet she wonders whether Spencer could ever adapt to the outside world and if she will snap again. While on the phone with Stevens, Spencer had stated that she was just shooting for the fun of it. She went on to say that she just didnt like Mondays and did this because its a way to cheer up the day.3, 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 Spencers true motives in committing such a crime. ( )Tj )]TJ 0.02 Tw /Span<>> BDC 0.237 Tw /Span<>> BDC She grew up relatively poor and spent most of her early life with her father, Wallace Spencer, with whom she had a turbulent relationship. Brenda Spencer /T1_3 1 Tf /T1_4 1 Tf /Span<>> BDC /T1_4 1 Tf 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.. This is such a sad case because those kids did not deserve to go through something so traumatizing. ET Spencer was charged as an adult and pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon. /T1_4 1 Tf [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ )]TJ /T1_5 1 Tf /T1_4 1 Tf (-)Tj ( )Tj 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. Five students were killed and thirty were injured. Well, thats pretty good shooting to hit as many folks as you did if youre not trying to hit anybody from across the street, the commissioner noted. /T1_4 1 Tf -2.118 -1.529 Td Police later found half empty alcohol bottles throughout the house. EMC [(H)23 (are, R. )]TJ So, how much is Brenda Spencer worth at the age of 60 years old? 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td Spencer later said, "I asked for a radio and he bought me a gun." [(and )0.5 (A)4.9 (dult P)10 (erpetrat)-10.1 (ors. 8\2269. EMC (97)Tj [(H)23 (art)30 (, )]TJ EMC The uninjured looked around confused as to what was happening. BT 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. She recalled lying in the nurses office, bleeding as bullets crashed through the window. /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_3 1 Tf 0.238 Tw /Span<>> BDC Brenda pled guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon. However, according to the rules of imprisonment, the next time, giving her the right to request pardon, will come in 2019. On Monday morning, January 29th, she asked her father if she could stay home from school because she didnt feel well, the deputy district attorney reported. Four times the murderer asked for parole, and four times she was refused. 81. 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 . [(\223H)23 (earing 2009,)80 (\224 p. 27)70 (. Brenda aimed the rifle at the schoolyard from her bedroom. 0 Tw 2.118 0 Td But I wasnt able to run from the bullet Brenda had for me, Hardy said. 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. EMC A single .22 caliber shot entered his back and out of Cam's chest. Their effort to save the children will be appreciated forever. The cellmate looked so much like Spencer, even local police officers believed Brenda had been released early from prison. /Span<>> BDC (91)Tj She also killed custodian Mike Suchar (age 56) as he tried to pull a student to safety. 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. 0.298 Tw /Span<>> BDC 16. -2.118 -1.529 Td The total number of shots from the murderer's window was 36. Officer Robert Robb shot in the neck as he arrived but he lived. /Span<>> BDC Theme powered by WordPress. Mondays always carry with them a negative connotation and contain components such as depression, fatigue, and anguish. She was given an indefinite sentence and remains in prison. 0.237 Tw /Span<>> BDC (88)Tj The history of criminology has many stories about the shootings, which are arranged by schoolchildren. He is one of many opposing her release on grounds that she remains a risk to the people of his city. ( )Tj She said she had been under the influence of alcohol, pot, and downers. /T1_4 1 Tf /T1_4 1 Tf As of December2015, she has been unsuccessful at four parole board hearings. [(V)45 (ersion 1.0 \()13 (11 F)35 (ebruary 2016)8.1 (\))]TJ ( )Tj He blames total negligence and unbelievably bad parenting by her father in giving her the gun. Deadly Women Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. EMC EMC 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. Ultimately, she surrendered. A 16-year-old girl, Brenda Spencer, who lived in a house across the street from the school, was convicted of the shootings. Brenda Ann Spencer was the killer who started it all. ( )Tj /Span<>> BDC /T1_2 1 Tf EMC Do not leave her indifferent and stories about violence. I walked into court and saw this monster glaring at me, he remembered. EMC ( p. Former student /Span<>> BDC I felt like he wanted me to kill myself, she said later. 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. His life and death detailed, Where is Amy Fisher now? )Tj -2.118 -1.529 Td Wallace Spencer got married to a woman younger than Spencer and had a daughter. Successive parole hearings have heard powerful testimony from those who say their lives were permanently scarred by Spencer. 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. Spencer was sentenced to only 25 years to life, despite the cruelty of her crime. /T1_4 1 Tf Brenda loved to listen to stories with a tragic end, she liked the details of the bloody murders. /Span<>> BDC 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. 75. What if they got the idea from what I did?. [(Langman, P)90 (. 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. /T1_3 1 Tf Spencer was not once searching for ways to go free. ( )Tj A spokesperson for the prison told theDaily Mail: The Golden Girls program at California Institution for Women is geared toward addressing the emotional and physical needs of the older population. -0.03 Tc 0.537 Tw /Span<>> BDC The ruthless shooter continued shooting until the police blocked the school entrance by moving a garbage truck in front of it. /Span<>> BDC 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. )Tj )Tj While there, a journalist somehow found her home phone number and called. By chance, one of the numbers he called was answered by Spencer herself. /T1_3 1 Tf They had a child, and the little girl attended Buell's preschool. It didnt upset you that they seemed to have happier lives?, No, she said. ( )Tj EMC After her parents separated, she lived with her father, Wallace Spencer, in virtual poverty. EMC On Monday, January 29, 1979 started out as a normal day. She shot people for the fun of it. I was greatly comforted when the policemen arrived to carry me away. 0.238 Tw /Span<>> BDC This article brings to light the issue of gun control. EMC [(W)5 (ithout Conscience,)]TJ I was 10 years old when I was shot by Brenda Spencer.. She did it, she said, because she didn't like Mondays.