Violence in school or the workplace isn’t something new. “Maniac Teacher Shoots 7, Kills 4,” read the headlines in South Pasadena in 1940. Just a couple of weeks before graduation, 38-year-old South Pasadena Junior High School Vice Principle, Verlin H. Spencer, started to worry that he was going to be fired.
On the 6th of May, 1940, Verlin went to the school armed with a Colt Woodsman automatic .22-calibre pistol. He had called a meeting of school district officials. As they arrived, Verlin shot a killed the school’s superintendent, the principle, the school district manager and two teachers, leaving another teacher paralysed for life. Verlin then shot himself in the cafeteria but survived.
Verlin pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment. A couple of years later, a doctor discovered that he had extremely high levels of bromide in his blood and filed a report indicating that Verlin was insane. In 1970, Verlin was paroled. “I better go out and buy an iron vest. If he gets out, it’s just a matter of time before he comes to finish the job,” quipped a school board member. Verlin never returned to South Pasadena, though. He moved to Hawaii where he worked with the Salvation Army, helping rehabilitate other ex-inmates.
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