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[1][5] Although Spencer showed exceptional ability as a photographer, winning first prize in a Humane Society competition, she was generally uninterested in school. He recalled “the phone call from the neighbor who said there had been a shooting at Cleveland, the frustration of not being able to get near the school because the incident was still going on, the terror in my wife’s eyes, her screams of anguish at not knowing whether our girls were involved, the phone call from the hospital telling us that one of them had been wounded, looking at the bullet hole in her right elbow and the bullet burns on the inside if each thigh where a bullet had passed between her legs.”. [15] 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". “[The father] then went on and had a sexual relationship with her and married her,” the lawyer alleged. 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. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Police later said Spencer had no alcohol or drugs in her system when the massacre occurred. A former student named Cam Miller attended the hearing in person and offered the last statement. She was later charged and convicted of assault with a deadly weapons and two counts of felony murder. As of September 2020,[update] she remains in prison. Peers at her school said after her parents divorced, the once “happy tomboy” became sullen, depressed and began listening to Alice Cooper music, according to New York Daily News. She was asked if any adults had seen danger signs before the shooting. She then shot and killed school custodian Mike Suchar, and shot responding San Diego police officer Robert Robb in the neck, wounding him. She shot eight children, and she shot a responding police officer, Robert Robb, in the neck. Lawyers say she could now make a successful parole application. [5][7] Spencer later said, "I asked for a radio and he bought me a gun." Not liking Mondays as a reason for doing somebody in is a bit strange. © Irish Examiner Ltd, Linn Dubh, Assumption Road, Blackpool, Cork. That had been just before Christmas. We’d love your help. “I was greatly comforted when the policemen arrived to carry me away. Yet, while it was all happening, so beautiful, so serene, I couldn’t get over the perverse violence associated with my dad’s passing. Despite her plea for forgiveness and tales of a sordid childhood, Wilfred Suchar, son of Michael Suchar, doesn’t want Spencer to be freed and have the opportunity to hurt anyone else. 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. [3], 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 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. Aged 16 at the time of the shooting, she was 5'2" (157 cm) and had bright red hair. The commissioner asked if she remembered the police coming, and she said she did. “They made me numb so I didn’t feel anything,” she said. Later, of course, I had nightmares, and to this day I fear that someone is pointing a gun at me when I’m walking in open places.”, “And recently, my boyfriend wanted me to go to a shooting range with him because it’s a sport he enjoys, and although I was hesitant, I thought, ‘Well, it’s been a long time, I’ll probably be OK.’ And I sat there as he shot the silhouette, but he had to stop because I started frantically crying. The 38-year-old, who has spent 22 years behind bars, was refused by the California Parole Board. Select your favourite newsletters and get the best of Irish Examiner delivered to your inbox, Your Irish Examiner delivered to your door. [26], 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. “It would have been the drugs and the alcohol talking.”, The commissioner quoted the police negotiator’s 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.”. True crime has been enjoying something... To see what your friends thought of this book, I Don't Like Mondays: Brenda Spencer--Rampage Killer (True Crime Bus Stop Reads, #22). She said she had been under the influence of alcohol, pot, and downers.

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