Brenda Sue Spencer
Sadly today it seems that mass shootings are everywhere, especially in schools. Most of us think of Columbine as the first of these incidents but that is far from the truth. One of the earliest recorded was the Bath School Massacre in 1927. However, in 1979 Brenda Sue Spencer perpetrated what many consider to be the first modern day school shooting. In January of 1979 sixteen year old Brenda Sue Spencer lived across the street from Grove Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego California. As the children were arriving at school that day she opened fire using a rifle her father had bought her for Christmas just a month earlier. She sat in her window using a telescopic scope and having 500 rounds of ammo next to her. By the time she was done, two adults were dead with eight children and a police officer injured. The two men who died were fifty-three year old Burton Wragg, the principal and fifty-six year old custodian Mike Suchar. They were both attempting to sh...