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*** INGÅR EJ I AVTAL! *** Pictured here is: Brenda Ann Spencer at her first ever parole hearing in September 2005 Teenager Brenda Ann Spencer woke up the morning of January 29, 1979 and decided she didn't like Mondays. The 16 year-old picked up her gun - a rifle that her father Wallace Spencer had bought her for Christmas - and from the comfort of the family home began shooting across the street at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego. She fired 36 rounds into the school - killing the Principal Burton Wragg, a custodian working there and injuring 8 children and policeman Robert Robb. A reporter reached Brenda Spencer by phone while she was still in the house after the shooting and asked her why she did it. She answered: "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day." This comment inspired Bob Geldof to write the Boomtown Rats hit song I Don't Like Mondays. Brenda finally gave herself up six hours after the first shot. Tried as an adult, she pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and assault with a deadly weapon. She avoided the death penalty because she pleaded guilty and was given a sentence of 25 years to life. At her first parole hearing in 2005 she tried to claim she had been sexually molested by her fatehr and forced to share his bed. But her parole was denied. As of November 2018, she remains in prison. This was the first ever school shooting in the US. Ref: F NICLA 121118 A Focus News Agency Los Angeles: + 1 310 962 4153 npittam@focusnewsagency.com IBL *** Local Caption *** 07791474