16-year-old sniper in San Diego
- Title
- 16-year-old sniper in San Diego
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 30 Jan 1979
- Year of production
- 1979
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- Duration
- 00:03:13
- Description
- Steve Wiegand reports back on an incident at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California, where a 16-year-old old girl carried out a shooting spree. Male studio reporter not identified. (The girl was later identified as Brenda Ann Spencer. Principal Burton Wragg and head custodian Mike Suchar were killed, 8 children and a police officer sustained wounds. The incident inspired the song, I Don’t Like Mondays, by The Boomtown Rats).
- Contributors
- Steve Wiegand
- Keywords
- California; USA; Deaths; Adolescents; Homicide; Schools; Guns; Firearms; Schoolchildren; San Diego; Brenda Ann Spencer; Cleveland Elementary School
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