Karen Kilimnik: Fashion, Victim, Fan, Fiction
A little over a decade after Brenda Ann Spencer’s 1979 school shooting at Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California, Karen Kilimnik used the crime as the premise for an artwork.
The first modern school shooter was a sixteen-year-old girl named Brenda Ann Spencer. In 1979, she opened fire on Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California, from her house across the road, killing two adults, and injuring nine others. When questioned about her motive, Spencer reportedly replied, “I don’t like Mondays. This livens up the day.”
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