School Shooting Case Study

At the day of the school shooting, the police officers concluded that the shooter was hiding inside or outside one of the houses across the street from the school because eyewitnesses that had hidden inside the school from the shootings had told them that the shots were coming from across the street. (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/justice-story/justice-story-don-mondays-article-1.1504277). The police officers concluded that 16-year old Brenda Ann Spencer was the main suspect and that she was shooting from her parents house across the street because on the day of the shooting took place two reporters started to call houses in the neighborhood around the school to get statements on what was happening. The two reporters accidentally called Brenda Ann Spencer´s house that was right across the street from the school and asked her if she knew who the shooter was and where the shooter was hiding. Brenda answered the telephone and told the reporters that the shooter was at her own home address and that she was the one that had opened fire against the elementary school. Brenda finished the conversation by saying, and I …show more content…
It took 6 hours until Brenda surrounded, and during that time the police officers tried to negotiate with Brenda. Brenda told the negotiators things such as the children were ”easy pickings” and that she liked watching the children in pain after she had shoot them. (http://articles.latimes.com/1998/jan/21/news/mn-10587). After the 6 hours of negotiation and the police officers efforts to make Brenda Ann Spencer surrender, she walked out from her house and put her gun down on the lawn without trying to shot against the police officers and surrounded.