![]() She remains in prison.īoomtown Rats singer-songwriter Bob Geldof and keyboardist Johnnie Fingers were being interviewed at Georgia State University when they saw news of the shootings come through on a telex machine (hence the mention in the lyrics). Eventually she surrendered after she was promised a Burger King. When asked for a motive, Spencer’s chilling response was ‘I don’t like Mondays. While there she was interviewed over the phone by a reporter for The San Diego Union-Tribune. Spencer escaped and barricaded herself in her home. She also injured eight children and one police officer. Spencer killed Wragg as he tried to help, plus a custodian who was trying to pull a student to safety. On 29 January 1979, Spencer opened fire at staff and pupils in the playground of the school as they waited for Principal Burton Wragg to let them in. Later, Spencer stated ‘I asked for a radio and he bought me a gun.’ When asked why he would do that, she replied ‘I feel like he wanted me to kill myself’. Her father refused and instead bought her a rifle for Christmas. Following a psychiatric evaluation in December, her probation officer recommended she be admitted to a mental hospital for depression. Later that year she was arrested for burglary and shooting from the window of the school. ![]() In 1978 Spencer, who had been skipping school, told her parents she was suicidal. At some point Spencer suffered a head injury and it’s suspected it had affected her mental health. ![]() They slept together on a single mattress on the floor. ![]() Far better known is the Dublin outfit’s second, this piano-led ballad about a real-life school shooting spree.ġ6-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer lived in poverty across the road from Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California with her alcoholic father. The Boomtown Rats had been the first new wave act to score a number 1, in 1978 with Rat Trap. ![]()
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