Danvers schools closed after teacher murdered (MA)

WHDH ^ | 10/23/13 | WHDH

[raccoonradio]

DANVERS (WHDH) -- A 14-year-old student is in custody after a teacher was found murdered at Danvers High Schools.

Danvers Public Schools were closed Wednesday. The Essex District Attorney’s office said it was due to an ongoing homicide investigation.

Danvers has five elementary schools, a middle school and a high school. Essex District Attorney said the schools are closed primarily for the investigation and that there is no risk to the public or children.

Overnight, there were reports of a missing teen. The DA confirmed that the missing Danvers teen was found safe Wednesday morning.

They’ve scheduled a news conference for 9 o’clock Wednesday morning. 7News will have that news conference live.
Stay with 7News for developments.

[raccoonradio]

Salem News & Danvers Patch have the name and pic of the kid—if indeed those are correct (probably are but I’m just covering my butt here). Due to state law the name can’t officially be released (yet); he may be charged as an adult though under a new law. Ch 7: he carried the victim out of the school and dumped body into the woods. In a trial or arraignment they are trying to make it that cameras do not show him.

[raccoonradio]

News media finally allowed to report that
suspect is Phillip Chism; he is to be arraigned
in a Salem court this aft. and will be held till
at least his next court date in late Nov.

[grania]

Danvers is one of those classy north shore Boston suburbs. Totally incomprehensible event, more like something out of a Robert Parker novel.

[patriot08]

IS it really a ‘incomprehensible event’- or another brutal ‘whitey’ beat down?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks raccoonradio.

> Philip Chism, 14, was seen on surveillance footage dragging a recycling bin with Colleen Ritzer’s body through the halls of Danvers High School in Massachusetts on Tuesday night then dumping her remains in the woods near campus, according to police sources.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2473210/Danvers-High-school-boy-charged-murder-teacher.html

[SunkenCiv]

Philip Chism, 14, Was Charged With The Murder Of A Danvers High School Teacher Colleen Ritzer - YouTube

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Heard on Howie Carr Show that he transferred to the school just two weeks ago. He and his mother just moved to MA from TN. His mother is a psychologist or psychiatrist.

I wonder what they were leaving behind.

[patriot08]

Mailonline says he butchered her with a box cutter. Psyco POS.

[dennisw]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2473210/Danvers-High-school-boy-charged-murder-teacher.html

This was not some deprived black kid. His familiy was living in a very nice house. Photos at the link////////// File under psycho-killer who has no idea why he did it. His mind is dead to the world.

OK-—What kind of ADD drugs or other legally prescribed drugs was he taking? My bet is this will be the case and part of the defence

[patriot08]

He’s still a psycho pos. Probably all fired up over Travon

[skeeter]

You have to be pretty enraged to kill a 24 year old woman on the spur of the moment with a box cutter.

Enraged as a person with a chip on his shoulder might get when convinced the woman spurned his advances because she didn't like the color of his skin.

To millions of people in this country the appropriate penalty for racism is death.

Just a guess.