It was colder than usual that Monday morning in late January 1979 and there was frost on the ground as nine-year-old Monica Selvig arrived at Cleveland elementary school in San Carlos, a pleasant suburb of the California seaside city of San Diego.
Out of the blue, Monica felt a sharp pain in her left side, and was thrown to the ground. She had been struck by a bullet.
Just moments later, another bullet struck eight-year-old Mary Clark in her stomach as she walked up the school path.
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