Parole Rejected for Killer in School Attack
A state parole board Tuesday rejected a bid for freedom by Brenda Spencer, who killed two adults and wounded eight children in a 1979 sniper attack on a San Diego elementary school.
Spencer, 43, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison in 1980; this was the third time her bid for parole had been rejected.
The two-member parole board at the California Institution for Women in Chino ruled that she could not request parole again until 2009.
Spencer was 16 when she fired 36 shots on Jan. 29, 1979, from a .22-caliber semiautomatic rifle that her father had just given her as a Christmas present.
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