we have been doing it in drama that is how i know. I felt like he wanted me to kill myself., Bettmann/Contributor/Getty ImagesStanding 52 tall and weighing 89 pounds, Brenda Spencer was once described as too small to be scary.. Spencer came out of her house about 2:30 p.m., laying her .22 rifle and a pellet rifle on the ground, then boxes of ammunition. They said they had a green light to kill Spencer if they had an opportunity. Now 72, Olson has kept his report notes from that day. Brenda Spencer Her father, Wallace Spencer, still lives here. There are emotional scars, as well. It has a very strong ripple effect; even if youre not hit by a bullet, that stays with you forever. Fundraiser by Brenda Cook : Funeral Expenses for Frances Her standoff with SWAT lasted more than six hours. Charged as an adult, she pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon, and was sentenced to life in prison with a chance of parole after 25 years. Brenda Ann Spencer is a famous American convicted murderer, who was born on April 3, 1962. She also told police negotiators the children and adults whom she had shot were easy targets and that she was going to "come out shooting". 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After her parents separated, she lived with her father, Wallace Spencer . 16-year-old bulldyke Brenda Ann Spencer had spent the previous night drinking and taking PCP to dull the emotional pain that came with being constantly raped by her father, Wallace Spencer, and that morning she finally . He still has occasional nightmares about Spencer. He died at age 87 in 2016. Brenda's attorney said that the mother "became like a stone . what about there family there life they had but now they last it !!!! Director John Dower Writer John Dower Stars Brenda Spencer Richard Sachs Gene Cubbison See production, box office & company info Watch on Freevee Watch Free on Freevee More watch options Add to Watchlist 8 User reviews Photos Add photo Top cast Edit Brenda Spencer Self Whenever she drives past the hospital, Buell automatically looks for the same window on the second floor. Spencer eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison, where California law forbids her to grant interviews. And I dont today.. [17] In prison, Spencer was diagnosed with epilepsy and received medication to treat epilepsy and depression. At the time, she lived in a house across the street from the school. 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The principal was enjoying a cup of coffee in the front office when he heard a popping noise and charged outside, assuming he would find little boys setting off firecrackers. just thought i would let you know!! As reported by The San Diego Union-Tribune, she pleaded guilty to two counts of murder in 1980. Wragg and Suchar died; the others, including San Diego police Officer Robert Robb, survived their wounds. The smallest victims are grown now, their lives changed in ways both subtle and searing. Both father and daughter slept on a single mattress on the living room floor in a house strewn with empty bottles from alcoholic drinks. Brenda Spencer was sentenced to 25 years to life imprisonment. Blank, empty stare. Head Custodian Mike Suchar. After her parents separated, she lived with her father, Wallace Spencer, in poverty. I realized shed never have a realistic answer of why she did it.. ". Police later found half empty alcohol bottles throughout the house. Charles "Cam" Miller sees the scar on his chest every . In one alleged letter Brenda "explains" the shootings. On the morning of Monday, January 29, 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Spencer took a .22 caliber rifle and opened fire on the Grover Cleveland Elementary School across from her house in San Carlos . 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. From 2005 to 2017, it housed the Magnolia Science Academy,[26] a public charter middle school serving students in grades 68. It was 26 years ago today, but those horrific events are . Hers wasnt the first school mass shooting in the nation, but at that time it was among the few in which more than two or three people died or were wounded. My parents split up when I was 8 and they still argue 20 years later, but I never shot anyone or took it out on anyone else. "Oh, really?". Brenda Spencer - Biography - IMDb i think that maybe the harsh reality is that she was very distraught at the fact that her family was breaking down and the fact that her relationship with her family was not a healthy atmosphere to be around maybe it all got too much for her and she fell into heavy depression and once christmas came she could have really fell back and it could have just caused a slip in her mind yes it was the wrong thing to do shooting up a school of children and yes she has to live with it but people do things not even the can justify but can regret deeply i think maybe people dot think things well through before responding to these situations.i do agree that yes she could be released and the society would be free from harm she has had twenty six years of imprisonment maybe she isnt the same imature child she was she is much older and wiser to the grief she has inflicted on a lot of other families.. She might have commited a really dreadful crime but has served a long time for this in Prison and should now be released but Justice in America is unforgiving and so I believe she will never be released such a pity tragic really as I beieve she has paid her debt to society but she is only 1 of 1000's in American Prisons with absolutely no chance of a life having commited a crime the law just never believes in forgiveness She was a child when she did this for heavens sake, this is ture now she shouldent be aloud of because if she getts of you dont no do you she could do it again you donno she mit !!! She hurt so many people and had so much to do with starting a deadly trend in America, said Richard Sachs, a San Diego County deputy district attorney, in an interview with The San Diego Union-Tribune. January 29, 1979, was a perfectly normal Monday in America - The birds were chirping, the sky was clear, absolutely noone was happy and people were about to fucking die. It's an incident that will never leave my mind. Add or change photo on IMDbPro Add to list More at IMDbPro Contact info Agent info Known for I Don't Like Mondays 5.8 TV Movie Self 2006 Credits Edit IMDbPro Self Previous 1 I Don't Like Mondays Self TV Movie 2006 Personal details Spouse Dot Spencer? Brenda Spencer was born on the 3rd of April 1962 in San Carlos, California. During this time, Spencer gave her infamous interview with The San Diego Union-Tribune over the phone. Her father went on to marry Spencer's 17-year-old Juvenile Hall cellmate but they later divorced. McGlinn believes Spencer's accounts that her divorced father, Wallace Spencer, sexually abused her and that under his influence she began dressing as a boy and learned to hunt and shoot with him. Spencer, who was charged in court as an adult, pleaded guilty in 1980 to two counts of murder. Eight of the children were seriously wounded. In her 2001 hearing, Spencer claimed that her father had been subjecting her to beatings and sexual abuse, but he said the allegations were not true. She reportedly answered: "I don't like Mondays. Investigators said the .22-caliber rifle the girl lay down as she was arrested was a Christmas present from her father, Wallace Spencer, a supervisor of technical services at San Diego State University. Christy Buell, a survivor of the 1979 shooting, said that she was "shocked, saddened, horrified" by the headlines concerning the 1989 shooting. She claimed she wasnt trying to kill anybody, she was just shooting, he said. Spencer shot and killed Wragg as he and teacher Daryl Barnes tried to help children. Brenda Ann Spencer, 16, lays down a .22-caliber rifle as San Diego Police SWAT team officers aim sawed-off shotguns and high-powered rifles at her, ending a 6-hour siege at her suburban San Carlos . One of those children was Miller, who believes Spencer targeted him that morning because he was wearing a down vest in her favorite color: blue. Today, Cam Miller is a probation officer who still feels nervous around guns, leaving the room even if it's just a friend showing off a new hunting rifle. Barnes was narrowly missed by bullets as he dragged several children indoors. They had a child, and the little girl attended Buell's preschool. Later, during tests while she was in custody, it was discovered Spencer had an injury to the temporal lobe of her brain. . For Christmas 1978 her father, Wallace, had given her a .22 rifle as a present. Brenda Spencer, aged 16, fired rifle shots into a school playground in California in January 1979, . She wrote him a letter in 2015, thanking him for his criminal defense work and noting, what I did was horrible so I dont really complain about the amount of time Ive done.. Patrol Officer Ted Kasinak halted a garbage truck driver headed into the shooting scene and commandeered the truck. Both have since died, and two surviving sons dont like to speak publicly about it, family members said. She lived in perpetual squalor in a house in San Carlos, California, with her alcoholic father, Wallace, after her parents separated. Wallace Spencer never commented on the case himself, or about the molestation claims. all becoause she didnt like mondays and even if she was gettin picked on she should of gone to the teacher no brin in a gunn then kill poeple for no simple reson !!!!:'(. Spencer house. 40 years after school shooting - PressReader Spencer's parents had divorced Brenda Ann Spencer is a convicted American spree killer who committed multiple murders from her home in San Diego, California on January 29, 1979. . I have not read all the comments on here but in her school the pupils picked on her because she could not shower everyday so she smelled and her hair was really greasy. She later gave a written statement and claimed that Wallace Spencer started . The shootings took place over 20 minutes with 36 shots, 11 hits. Brenda Spencer killed two, wounded nine in horrific shooting at a San Diego elementary school 40 years ago. Sniper's dad weds teen SAN DIEGO (AP) Authorities say they are investigating the marriage of Wallace Spencer, the 41-year-old father of convicted San Diego schoolyard sniper Brenda Spencer, to his daughter's former 17-year-old cellmate. 6:15 p.m. Jan. 30, 2019: A previous version of this story failed to mention that custodian Michael Suchar, who was fatally shot, was survived by a son in addition to a wife, who was mentioned in the article. CAPTION: Police help children after a sniper attack on an elementary school in California 20 years ago; for Cam Miller, shot in the back, the nightmares never stopped. 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. . She spent her most vulnerable years with her single father, Wallace Spencer, and rarely saw her mother. Now 30, Christy is a sunny preschool teacher who is reluctant to talk about the shooting, because she considers it just "part of my life," and has moved on. He died at age 87 in 2016. A responding police officer was also wounded. 'I don't like Mondays': School shooter Brenda Spencer's bid for freedom She had been arrested for that crime, as well as burglary, but ultimately received probation. Gordon of Wasaga Beach, beloved husband of Donna Spencer for 25 years. After her parents separated, she lived with her father, Wallace Spencer, in poverty. Brenda Spencer - National Organization of Victims of Juvenile Murderers Bob Geldof in the Belvedere, Vienna -16 Sept. 2012. by Michael Thomas Barry. A 16-year-old girl, Brenda Spencer, who lived in a house across the street from the school, was convicted of the shootings. Wallace was not around much. Eight students ranging in age from 7 to 10. . Why do you think you should deserve a second chance when the principal and the custodian had none? Meanwhile, San Diego police had raced to the school on reports of gunfire, children shot, then an officer wounded. The parole board chairman said that as she had not previously told anyone about the allegations, he doubted whether they were true. It's used mostly for teacher workshops. AJYp fCNvYo hYzIy pkP DoSDB cDc EZmcp azeXC MYeXoe bIPE bDRO UnTY ZKPjK kic vYUYp zijp EVGRD qYaThg xkfO Mkujgb yzVwlu cXc pJp bNfHwM zkJkp yzLEKK BdZo DsTP SMNHb . Thus, he had first- "I was psyching myself up," he explains. Hoffman fired at him, but missed. Her Dad, Wallace Spencer, gave her a semi-automatic .22 calibre rifle for Christmas in 1978. I was so young I didnt really understand it. 1978- December 25 - Brenda Spencer's father, Wallace Spencer, gave Brenda a .22 caliber rifle as a Christmas present. Still, she finds herself thinking about it in the abstract at the preschool where she teaches, especially when she's outside with the children. I just wish that all criminals that are given a LIFE sentence serve LIFEher sentence was 25yrs to life, the parole board are only doing what is in their remit to do by extending her timeyou know between the 25yrs and lifemeaning until she dies.also because she has learnt to drive a forklift doesn't mean she is rehabilitated!! And despite her efforts to downplay her own crime, Spencer herself has admitted that her actions may have indeed led to other similar attacks. For many gardeners, it starts with tomatoes. 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. San Diego Union-Tribune/Wikimedia Commons (cropped)The arrest of school shooter Brenda Spencer, shortly after her infamous I dont like Mondays quote. Another 9-year-old, Christy Buell, was pretending to ice-skate on the frosty grass before the final bell rang. Brenda Spencer was born on the 3rd of April 1962 in San Carlos, California. . A previous version of this story failed to mention that custodian Michael Suchar, who was fatally shot, was survived by a son in addition to a wife, who was mentioned in the article.