Everything about Brenda Ann Spencer totally explained
Brenda Ann Spencer (
April 3,
1962) is a convicted
American murderer who carried out a
shooting spree at Cleveland Elementary School in
San Diego,
California on Monday
the 29th of January,
1979. Principal Burton Wragg and head custodian Mike Suchar were killed in the attack, while eight children and a police officer sustained wounds.
The school was across the street from her house. She used the rifle she'd recently been given for Christmas by her father. When the six-hour incident ended and she was asked who she wanted to shoot, she said, "I like red and blue jackets". When they asked why, she shrugged and replied, "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day." She also said: "I had no reason for it, and it was just a lot of fun." "It was just like shooting ducks in a pond." and "[Thechildren] looked like a herd of cows standing around; it was really easy pickings." At the time of the shootings, Brenda Ann Spencer was 16 years old.
She pleaded guilty to two counts of
murder and
assault with a deadly weapon, and was sentenced to
prison for 25 years to
life, currently being served at The
California Institution for Women in
Chino.
She has been eligible for
parole four times and has been turned down each time, most recently in 2005. She will be eligible for parole again in 2009.
In 2005, she claimed that she was
drunk and under the influence of
PCP, and that her father, Wallace Spencer, had sexually abused her as a child (a claim she didn't make during the earlier years of her incarceration) and that the state and her attorney conspired to hide her drug test results.
Spencer's crime, lack of remorse, and inability to provide a serious explanation for her actions when captured, inspired the song "
I Don't Like Mondays" by
The Boomtown Rats, written by
Bob Geldof. Her quote "I don't like Mondays" also appears written on a wall in the
1985 movie
The Breakfast Club.
The LA Punk band, The Child Molesters also wrote a Song entitled "Brenda Spencer" that references her quote with the lyric of "You hate Mondays, well I hate Mondays too!".
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