Cleveland School Shooting: I Don't Like Mondays

On a Monday morning in January 1979 Brenda Spencer fired shots from her house in Cleveland at a school across the road. She killed the school Principal and a custodian and injuring eight children and a police officer, she was 16 years old. A reporter managed to ask Spencer why she did it to which she replied "I don't like Mondays" a quote that inspired one of the most popular songs of the year also called "I don't like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats, this served to highlight the shooting even more.

26 years later Spencer was up before the parole board with a chance to be freed and this documentary  gained exclusive access to the parole hearing. In the film we also see how her Mother had for the first time broken her silence and directly blamed her father for Brenda's actions, her mother and father were separated at the time and Spencer lived with her father. Indeed Spencer's father still lives in the house across the street from which she shot at the school. In the documentary we hear from Brenda's mother and after some persuading her father as well as family's and law enforcement involved.

Watch the full documentary now on Documentary Fans Release Date: 2006 Duration: 48 Minutes.