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The mother of Jillian Robbins struggles to understand why
“HARRISBURG, Pa, (AP) – She is the mother of a killer, lying awake at night as she tries to come to grips with the mayhem her daughter caused a year ago on Penn State’s University Park campus.
“How is it possible that I could have produced someone that caused so much harm?” Sirkka-Liia Robbins asked.
In an interview with the Centre Daily Times, Mrs. Robbins told of her daughter Jillian, her troubled childhood, her history of mental problems, and a failed marriage.
Jillian Robbins, 20, is charged with shooting to death Melanie Spalla and injuring Nicholas Mensah Sept. 17, 1996. No trial date has been set.
“I have tried so hard to understand what … I could have done myself to prevent this,” said Mrs. Robbins, who counsels international students at Penn State. “There was nothing that I hadn’t more or less already tried, or Jillian hadn’t tried.”
Jillian was just 11 years old when her mother first took her to see a counselor.
“She said ‘I want to die.’ And I wondered, what would an 11-year-old be sad about,” Mrs. Robbins said. The counseling continued through her daughter’s childhood, but Mrs. Robbins said she tried to make life as normal as possible.
While her mom sent her to Bible school and summer camps, Jillian learned to ride horses and joined a swim team. Early in her teen years, she won volunteer awards from the Red Cross and the state House of Representatives.
At 17, Jillian moved out of her mother’s house and went to live with her father, an administrator with the Army Reserves in DuBois. That year, still in high school, she signed up with a reserve company in Bellefonte.
After basic training, Jillian dropped out of high school and checked into a mental hospital, Mrs. Robbins said. One year later, the army discharged her for not finishing high school.
Soon after, Mrs. Robbins began to argue with her daughter about her future. Jillian wanted to continue to earn money at a State College diner, while her mother wanted her to finish school.
It was at the diner where Jillian met Kenneth Walter Williams, a fellow employee who later asked her to marry him. Five months after the ceremony, in February 1996, Jillian moved out.
The breakup was hard on Jillian, and Mrs. Robbins suggested she seek counseling again. She entered the Meadows Psychiatric Center in Centre Hall for a brief stay that summer.
Mother and daughter were together just a few days before the incident. They went shopping, an encouraging sign to Mrs. Robbins, who figured anyone looking for winter clothes was planning on a future.
Then came the shootings.
“I remember being in the preliminary hearing, and I saw those beautiful young, healthy college students walking away from the dais where they were speaking,” Mrs. Robbins said. “All I could think was, Thank God they are all right.”
And as for the Spalla family, the mother of Jillian Robbins has only sorrow.
“I thought of Melanie Spalla’s mom, who’s a mother like me,” she said “We loved our daughters, enjoyed raising them I’m sure, and I’ve thought of her every holiday that has been.””
Prosecutor vows to seek death for campus sniper
“*The district attorney says 19-year-old Jillian Robbins will be charged with capital murder in the brief shooting spree on the Penn State campus.”
“Associated press
STATE COLLEGE – Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a 19-year-old woman charged with killing a Penn State student and wounding another during a sniper attack on campus.
Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar made that promise Wednesday as he announced that Jillian Robbins had been charged with first- and third-degree murder, as well as five counts each of attempted murder and aggravated assault in Tuesday morning’s shootings.
“This is a capital case,” he said. “That means no bail.”
Gricar said the defendant attempted to kill Nicholas Mensah, 22, who was shot once in the stomach; Brendon Malovrh, 21 who said Robbins tried to stab him; and the unnamed targets of the other three shots fired from Robbins’ hunting rifle.
When she is released from the hospital, Robbins will be arraigned before District Justice Carmine Prestia. Her bail hearing will be held at that time before Judge David Grine. A preliminary hearing is tentatively scheduled for Sept. 26 at the county courthouse in Bellefonte.
Court documents indicate the shootings were a random act of violence.
“She was asked why she shot the people and she said she just decided to shoot,” according to the arrest warrant. “She was asked if she knew anyone she had shot and said no.”
Robbins, known in some circles as “Crazy Jill” and who was not a Penn State student, told police she got up at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday and decided she was going to “do it.”
Dressed in a poncho, she strolled out of her apartment with a 7mm Mauser rifle slung over her shoulder. She then cut across the 12th hole of the golf course that borders her tranquil neighborhood, passed under a busy four-lane highway and continued a 3-mile trek to campus.
Investigators say Robbins next stopped at a convenience store, purchased juice and a newspaper, and headed to the student union building. On the lawn she sat on a tarp under sagging tree branches and read the paper.
A short while later, the Army Reserve-trained dropout with a purple Mohawk opened fire. Robbins told police she shot Melanie Spalla, 21, of Altoona, Blair County, in the back, saw Mensah drop and was reloading when Malovrh tackled her, Spalla was originally identified as being 19.
Mensah and Robbins were both listed in fair condition.
Gricar said Robbins had hired defense counsel, but he wouldn’t speculate on whether she would pursue an insanity defense. Friends of the suspect have said she was depressed about her failed marriage, had attempted suicide, and had spent time in a mental institution.
The prosecutor said Robbins “spoke very clearly and was coherent.” with police after the 9:35 a.m. attack outside the Hetzel Union Building.
Attempts to reach Robbins’ mother, an international students adviser at Penn State’s Harrisburg campus, were not successful. Her father, a coordinator for the U.S. Army Reserve in DuBois had no comment.
Spalla’s funeral service will be held Saturday at the Saint Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Altoona at 10 a.m. Her family has requested that memorial contributions be made to the Altoona Public Library and the Blair Literary Council."
Shooting suspect to face capital murder charge
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) The 19-year-old woman known in some circles as "Crazy Jill" awoke at about 6:30 a.m. and decided she was going to "do it."
Dressed in a poncho, she strolled out of her apartment with a 7mm Mauser rifle slung over her shoulder Tuesday. She then cut across the 12th hole of the golf course that borders her bucolic neighborhood, passed under a busy, four-lane highway and continued a 3-mile trek to campus.
Jillian Robbins next stopped at a convenience store, purchased juice and a newspaper, and headed to the student union building. There she laid out a plastic tarp under a sagging, rain-drenched tree and read the paper.
A short while later, the Army Reserve-trained dropout with a punk haircut became the news. Before she was subdued, police said, she killed one student and injured another.
"She was asked why she shot the people and she said she just decided to shoot," Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar said while detailing Robbin's statement to police. "She was asked if she knew anyone she had shot and she said no."
Robbins, 19, was charged on Wednesday with first-degree and third-degree murder in the death of Melanie Spalla, 21, of Altoona, Robbins told officers she shot Spalla in the back. Gricar said.
Robbins also was charged with five counts of attempted murder and five counts of aggravated assault. She will be arraigned before District Justice Carmine Prestia when she is released from Centre Community Hospital, where she was being treated for a self-inflicted stab wound.
The five counts are for Nicholas Mensah, 22, a student shot in the stomach; Brendon Malovrh, 21, who said that Robbins tried to stab him after he knocked the gun from her hands: and the unidentified targets of the other three shots fired from the rifle, including a man who found shrapnel in a book inside his bookbag. Mensah and Robbins were both listed in fair condition late Wednesday.
The district attorney said her arraignment and bail hearing probably would be held Thursday. Her preliminary hearing has been tentatively scheduled for Sept. 26 at the Centre County courthouse in Beliefonte.
Gricar said he will ask that bail be denied because he plans to seek the death penalty.
Gricar said Robbins had hired defense counsel, but he wouldn't speculate on whether she would pursue an insanity defense. Friends of the suspect have said she was depressed about her failed marriage, had attempted suicide and had spent time in a mental institution.
The district attorney said Robbins "spoke very clearly and was coherent" following the shootings outside the Hetzel Union Building at 9:35 a.m. Tuesday.
Attempts to reach Robbins' mother, an international students adviser, at Penn State's Harrisburg campus weren't successful. Her father, a coordinator for the U.S. Army Reserve in DuBois, had no comment.
Robbins, who was not a Penn State student, was spotted leaving home with her gun and dog tags, but no calls were made to the police.
Other witnesses later told investigators they saw a woman walking in the rain toward campus in a "bulky" poncho, which Penn State safety supervisor Dave Stormer said presumably meant that she had put the gun under her poncho.
Many students, among the dozens interviewed by police, recalled seeing a woman reading a newspaper in the rain.
"Hindsight is hindsight," Sormer said. "All the things that may look suspicious after the fact don't always look suspicious when they happen."
Meanwhile, under a tree on the edge of the lush HUB lawn, which remained cordoned off by police tape, were dozens of candles, cards, and flowers.
"This never should have happened to you," read a card addressed to the slain communications major. "I hope you're in a better place."
Thumbtacked to the tree was this anonymous poem titled: "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," referring to the school's Nittany Lion mascot.
"The lion sleeps tonight for her lost an injured and frightened cubs. The grey air reflecting her treasured song for senseless disaster in her den. The lion weeps at night as the rain falls, cleansing the wounds, covering the marl(?wordcutoff) The sky crying as a lion became an angel."
"A walking contradiction: Friends offer insight into Penn State shooting suspect"
By Dave Ivey, Associated Press. "Under the punk haircuts, retro clothes and Doc Martens are a conflicting jumble of personality traits. Acquaintances of accused Penn State sniper Jillian Pekkanen Robbins have alternately described her as friendly and flirtatious, sullen and withdrawn, smart but unmotivated and energetic yet aimless - a rebellious nonconformist who was constantly craving acceptance.
"I feel like we should have been able to see this coming," said Brenda Young, manager of the convenience store where Robbins clerked.
In the weeks before Tuesday's campus shooting, the transient 19-year-old had been served with divorce papers, swallowed a bunch of pills in a suicide attempt, sought treatment at at mental hospital and had a "huge fight" with her new live-in sweetheart, friends and co-workers said.
'Even on her bad days, we never dreamed she'd hurt someone, except maybe herself.' - Brenda Young
"Her emotional turmoil had been building for a long time, but I believe that last fight with her boyfriend Monday night is what set Jill off," said Carol Witmer, a co-worker at the Uni-Mart in nearby Boalsburg. The next morning police said Robbins killed a student and wounded another in a random shooting spree on the Penn State lawn. When they asked why, investigators said she told them that she had simply decided to shoot. Robbins, who was not a student, was arraigned Friday on multiple charges of murder, attempted murder and aggravated assault. She could face the death penalty if convicted, making her one of the youngest women ever on death row in Pennsylvania, according to a legal historian.
Her parents, who divorced when Robbins was in high school, both declined interviews. Attempts to reach her estranged husband, Kenneth Walter-Williams, or her roommate, Morgan David have been unsuccessful. Residents of the three neighborhoods where Robbins had lived in the past 15 months and fellow employees at the three businesses where she worked over the same period of time spoke of a witty, artistic tomboy with a passion for exotic pets, imported cigars and funky hairstyles - at one point wearing her hair in a purple Mohawk.
"She's not the monster the media is making her out to be, she does need help, though," said Kathryn Park who rented a studio apartment to Williams and Robbins after their Aug.1, 1995, wedding.
Robbins had moved to State College in December of 1994 in the middle of her senior year at Du Bois Area High School. She enrolled in an alternative education program called the Delta Program, but did not finish. She was discharged from the Army Reserves for failing to complete high school. Classmates in DuBois and State College remembered her as a strange girl, but not a troublemaker. She did not have a criminal record. Robbins met her future husband while working in a downtown diner-bakery, the restaurant where she picked up the moniker "Crazy Jill." She never met her in-laws, who didn't know about the marriage until Tuesday.
Their landlady said the couple owned a dog, chinchilla, iguana and dwarf hamster and that Robbins was a talented sketch artist who wanted to become a veterinarian or open a horse ranch. "They were young and in love at first, but it soon fell apart. Ken told me she was cheating on him," Park said. "He was very sweet to her, but the relationship just wasn't working out. I don't know why. She's pretty hard to get a good handle on."
Indeed, it seems that many people knew of her, but few really knew her. Police reportedly found an old suicide note and her diary during a search, but have not disclosed the contents. She did not hide a history of psychiatric care, however, telling friends she stayed at The Meadows Psychiatric Center after a breakdown and attempted suicide earlier this month. Robbins said she was on medication and under the supervision of a therapist.
When her parents split, she moved with her mother, Sirkka Liisa Robbins, to State College, where her mother was hired as an administrator at the main Penn State campus. Her mother, a native of Finland, later transferred to the Harrisburg campus and Robbins stayed behind. Her father, Daniel Robbins, an administrator with the U.S. Army Reserves in Clearfield County, remarried.
Jillian Robbins enlisted in the Reserves during her junior year and went through basic training with the 446th Quartermaster Company in Bellefonte in June and July 1994, learning skills as a laundry and bath specialist. But in June 1995 she was discharged for failing to complete high school, according to Major Greg Yesko of the 99th Regional Support Command. The rifle recovered at the scene, a bolt-action 7mm Mauser, was owned by Robbins. Her dog tags were tied to the shoulder strap.
A second co-worker at the Uni-Mart, who asked not to be identified, said Robbins had changed dramatically in the past two weeks. "She was always a little weird, you know, always staring off into space or crying for no reason. And other times she was like, 'Welcome to Uni-Mart. Welcome to Uni-Mart. Welcome to Uni-Mart.' Greeting people over and over and over again, like she was trying to make friends," the fellow employee said. "But recently, she stopped talking. And she just had this glassy look in her eyes," she said. "I hope Jill gets the help she needs." "
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