Weve all been sentenced to a lifetime of pain, heartache and loss. This criminal deers is of the same. He was convicted of raping, strange his math teach tore death in danvers high back in october of 2013 before toughing her body in the woods behind the school. A loss of colleen breaks my heart but not just for myself it. Breaks for the with that will never get to have miss ritzer as their beloved teacher. It breaks the ritzer family who will always have an empty chair at their holiday table. Reporter because of a reasonable ruling when it comes to juveniles convicted of firstdegree murder chisolm would be eligible for parole. David althoughy sentenced him to serve as least 40 years behind bars before that possibility comes up. When something terms happens people will often say it could always be worse. It is difficult for this to, this court to imagine what could be worse for an individual or a family to endure than the brutal and senseless murder of colleen. Cried in court left the courthouse without comment. Reporter comment on the ruling today . While his attorney told me they will appeal. There is an automatic appeal in a firstdegree murder conviction. Reporter chisolm will rein a juvenile facility until he is 21. At which time he will be relowed to walpole where he will serve out the rest of his prisoner it. He remains eligible for parole in the year 2056. Live in salem, steve cooper, 7 news. Anchor after an emotional day in court Colleen Ritzer as family speaking out about the. Anchor of course and they is. With more on their statement for byron . Reporter tom and peggy ritzer were stoic in court when they heard the sentence for their daughters killer, but later they could not hold back anger saying that phillip chisolms punishment was not we are devastated and feel betrayed. Anchor parents Colleen Ritz Ritzer expressing outrage that their daughters killer will be eligible for parole after just 40 years. They say 17yearold phillip chisolm deserves nothing less than life behind bars with no parole. We are disgutted and personally offended with the defenses repulsive recommendation that colleens killer be parole eligible within 15 years therefore putting him back into society at age 29 do kill again. Anchor two months after ritzers murder the state Supreme Court outlawed life with no parole sentences for juveniles. Chisolm was 14 at the time. Tom and peggy ritzer say the syc sycs decision to change the law is disrespectful not only to their daughter but also to those who love her. The notion of Second Chance should not be applicable in this case. Do the intentional and thoroughly planned actions of this individual colleen cannot be provided i Second Chance and neither should be individual who took her life. Certainly given the facts of this case which could not be more horse iic i believe somebody who commits murder in the firstdegree should not have parole eligibility. Reporter tom and peggy ritzer say when phillip chisolm does come up for parole after 40 years they or their two remain remaining children will be there to oppose it. They say someone needs to be there to speak for colleen. Those the store elive in salem. Im byron barnett, 7 news. Anchor we spoke to tom hoops about chisolms sentence. This was the harshest punishment this judge could give and still have a chance of a sentence being upheld on appeal. In other words the Supreme Court said six times since 2005 you cant lock juveniles up and throw away the key. The Supreme Court of massachusetts has said 2012 you throw away the key so this guy is going to be 55 hen he gets out. Thats as close to locking somebody up but holding on to the key as i think you could have gotten. Anchor hoops went on to say if the judge made chisolms sentence any longer another court would likely reverse the case in an appeal. Anchor following more break breaking news. There are major delays on route 93 right now due it a serious accident in canton. Officials temporarily closed the roadway this afternoon to allow a medical helicopter to land and pickp a patient. A car going south ended up slam slamming in a guardrail head on. This is near the intersection of 93 and route 24 heading toward brockton and fall river. Cars are slowly getting by now but you can see the traffic back up for mild miles and miles so drivers are being urged to use a different route if at all possible before the evening commute is we have more breaking news for you now. Part of Mark Wahlbergs new bowling will not be filmed in watertown. The filmmakers wanted to create the shootout, wanted to recreate the shootout between the marathon bombers and police on happened. They even wept around asking people who lived there if it was okay. So it turns out, they will in fact have to find another location. Watertown officials releasing this statement saying upon further reflection, filming the recreation of the watertown shootout when police encountered the Boston Marathon bombers at thesense of dexter avenue and laurel street is not in the best interest of watertown. Anchor we are following breaking news on the campaign trail im shocking endorsement for donald trump. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie says that he is backing the new york billionaire for president. So the two made the announcement this afternoon in texas where trump is campaigning ahead of super tuesday. Lets head over to 7s tim caputo live in our newsroom with the breaking details. Anchor a bit of a shocker here today in the republican race. Chris i didntity who had several debates said that president is now campaigning with the one candidate with no political experience. He has been my friend for many years. Reporter the morning after a contentious debate in houston, texas donald trump got another boost in the form of an endorse endorsement from new Jersey Governor Chris Christie. There is no better fighter than donald trump. Reporter just weeks ago kristi was a contender dedo baiting against trump but now is bagging the billionaire businessman. I have been on that stage. I have got tone know all of the people on that stage. There is no one who is better prepared to provide america with the strong leadership that it needs both at home and around the world than donald trump. Christies relentless attacks on marco rubio are largely credited as one of the reasons for the florida senator senators poor performance in new hampshire. Die. Reporter rubio who butted heads with trump last night continued his agrees i attacks today. He is a conman. Its time to unmask hip for what he is. Anchor rubio also played down what some are calling a donald probably needs a life line after last night of respect that. I have more than my fair share of endorsements. Reporter killy baker who at one point backed cross i didntity said christies surprise announcement today does not mean he too will back trump. I continue to believe that the next president of the United States needs to be somebody with a proven track record of working well with others and being able to collaborate and cooperate and as i have said before, i dont think donald trump fits that mold. Reporter governor baker said he was surprised about i christies endorsement saying he would stay out of the race all together will baker also said he does not anticipate that he will vote for donald trump. Live in the newsroom, tip caputo 7 news. Anchor a driver on a crash course in West Bridgewater slamming right in a home. The driver thrown out and trapped under the very car. Neighborhood. Jonathan hall live for us with a jon . Well, this man was hospital. Charges. Police are going after his phone records in court so they can see if he was texting as you can see the damage has been repaired here to the front of the house as he hit it he was egentlemened from the car. His arm stuck under a tire. A neighbor called police. There is a guy under a van, a car hit a guy he is under a van. Reporter it turns out no pedestrian was struck and it was the driver himself who was pinned beneath his chevy after driving too fast according to the police and losing control. The patriot was aler. He was conscious. He was talking back and forth to the officer but his arm was pinned underneath the front drivers tire. This was at 6 30 a. M. On a busy road in West Bridgewater im dpw worker grew up here and heard the emergency on his police scanner. His mom was sloping in the back of the house. She was in bed and she was scared to death. Got a arthat flies 30 feet through the air and smashes into imagine it makes quite a noise. Anchor West Bridgewater police say a 25 yearly man was at the wheel. Judging by the skid marks it looks like he failed to negotiate a curve in the road, hit a can you be then over corrected and skid across the street ing a tree and then hitting the house. When we got here the actual driver was pinned under the vehicle and west bridge water fire and ems did a great job getting him out of here and from what i understand they medflight medflighted him out. Anchor fire crews dealt nobody was in the house, nobody hurt there but they had to use a special device to lift the suv off the driver who lives here in West Bridgewater. Not something we run into every day but guys did a great job. So to be clear there was a woman in this house, however she was not injured of the man as pinned for about 20 minutes. He is now being treated at brigham and women hospital. A witness has come forward to tell the police he was going way too fast. Live in West Bridgewater, jonathan hall, 7 news. Anchor following more news mass shooting in kansas. Three people were killed there. 14 others injured when a gunman went on a shooting rampage at his kansas workplace near wichita. Officials say the death toll would be much higher if it werent for the heroic actions of a Police Officer. As investigators tried to figure out why a worker at this Lawn Equipment forecast forry opened fire killing three and injuring 14 thursday, they are also learning more about how the attack unfolded. Kansas governor sam brown back said the Rapid Response of police that saved lives. The police chief in particular went in immediately to address the situation rather than even waiting on backup. He wept right in and did heroic duty and service. Anchor a Police Officer went into the building after cedric ford. He confronted ford and shot and killed him. Sheriffs deputies served ford with an order to stay away from his girlfriend hours before the rampage. Anything outrageous. He just displayed a little upset he was getting this order. Anchor then police say ford armed with a rifle and handgun shot two people apparent low random victims stole a car and came to excel industries. People running and saying pop, pop, pop. Im going, i start to run too. Anchor witness moles the shooting was over and ford was dead. This man was not going to stop shooting. The only reason he stopped shooting is because that officer stopped the shooter. Anchor as this Small Community mourns those lost, were starting to learn more about people taken in this mass shooting. According to family members, one of those killed was a man named josh higby. Two other families are feeling the same pain. Today president obama called the mayor of hesnon to offer condole owns and to thank the First Responders who risked their lives to save others. Anchor now to a story you saw first on 7, state police still seing for a driver involved in a chase. Crash into a park will van in boston yesterday. The driver then took off. Police originally tried to pull him over for a violation but he wouldnt stop. Anchor sky 7 in easton also today where a huge tractortrailer slammed in a gas station. You can see the crews there around the truck. It had crashed right into a sign sign. You can see the damage caused by the crash in some of these pictures september to 7. Crews work for quite some time to clean up the mess. No word yet on any injuries. Anchor coming up on 7 news, a race to the rescue after a house goes up in flames. A man rushing in to save the family trapped inside. Anchor then at 5 30 its becoming a huge problem across the country. Even right here in massachusetts massachusetts. Hidden bug that could affect your whole household. Anchor were following breaking news right now. Convicted killer phillip chisolm sentenced to life in prison for the murder and ray of his High School Teacher each will get a chance of parole in 40 years and anchor a risky rescue after a home guess up in flames in minute sew great. That home was destroyed by the fire. Anchor but the family inside survived thanks to a neighbor who jumped in to help. The lives of two minnesota in the face of tragedy over the weekend. Anchor there was no doubt it was a big fire that needed attention right away. Anchor thats when this home erupted into flames destroy destroying the house, a boat and a car. Shortly before the fire, the homeowner was preparing the boat for a fishing trip and left the building to get supplies. It happened so fast and everything just was gone. Anchor within 15 minutes the fire start and swept through the familys garage. Tom owens was driving home from work when he saw smoke copping out of the garage and knew he had to do something to help. Anchor it was just instinct instinct. I knew the fire was bad. Coy see the flames and the garage and knew what was going to get to the house pretty quick. Anchor after calling 9110 whens immediately went into the anyone inside. He found the homeowners father and family pets and was able to. Anchor it was a vicing how quickly that consume the house and that was less than three minutes after we left the build building and i dont think i would have watched to be in. Than 100,000 in damage. No one was hurt which is all that matters for the two neighbors. Anchor ing that you for saying my dad out there. Being brave enough to go in. There is not a lot of people like that. Im glad it turned out as it d. I dont think i could call myself a hero though. Anchor the family did have insurance on the house but crews lost most of the inventory for a fishing lure business that he had planned to start. Anchor chilly wind out there this evening. That fades away and then a warm warming trend for the weekend. How do you reimagine banking . Then you make it. You make a capital one caf\. With free wifi and banking advice. Without all the double talk. And checking accounts with no minimums. Or fees. Then you design a toprated mobile app that makes banking as easy as this. Thats banking reimagined. Anchor a cool picture from one our witter friends in the hopkinton area and he took this pick ice out on the lack of i asked how you pronounce that and he was kind enough to say this is how you pronounce it. I said i will probably still butch i it. The point here is that no more ice on the lake and last year as we call it ice out, that happened on april 1. So here we are february 26 and we lost the ice there on the lake. There is a sign that we had a warm winter and this winter going become to december 1, weve had 33 days in boston where the temperature has reach at least 50. Yesterday of course we were in the lower 60s. Even eclipsing the warm winter how warm . This is the second warmest boston and still couple of warm days in front of us. Last year by the way down here at the bottom of the list 120th in terms of warmest. Not warm at all last winter. Right now not all that warm. Kind of chilly. Tells are running into the 30s. Boston 35, bedford at 32. Nashua 3. This is the enemy today though. If you can have an enemy on friday, i dont know if thats possible but it would be the wind and that wind is cold and biting and nasty and goes right through you. Creates wind chills into the teens an 20s that. Wind is with us this evening. Then it fades away overnight tonight. Lows overnight tonight down into the teens to around 20. High pressure will spend the weekend with us which means sunshine both tomorrow and again on sunday and officially tomorrow it is chilly with High Pressure shoving this air from buffalo into boston tomorrow but then High Pressure will find a home south of new england and that will actually grab some milder air which is now across the central and Southern Plains and that mild air moves into new england for the second half of the weekend. So tomorrow 35 to 40 with again normal and then for sunday were talking about temperatures into the middle 50s. Monday it could be a couple of sprinkle around lunch time. Nothing significant our next storm middle of next week and those are raindrops. Not snowflakes. Anchor we have a story about some flower frustration for a loomlily facing a sudden tragedy. They carefully planned Funeral Services to honor their mother. They spent time of course picking out flour arrangements that were her faith color. Anchor then something went wrong. Here is kris anderson. Reporter when machinedys mother passed away unexpectedly this past fall, her world was turned upsidedown. Because i was just going through the motions. Reporter mandy had to plan her mothers funeral and wanted to make sure it was done right. We were worried about the flowers because i mean, part of the proper burial. Reporter mandy and her flowers if a flower shop in franklin. We said we want them to be full, we want orchids and purple and white. Purple was her favorite color. We told them the time. When she arrived at the funeral home the day of the service, there was a problem. Reporter the funeral director said he would handle it and he did. But the flowers didnt arrive until there were only a few. They werent what we asked for and they looked like they. In the days after the funeral, mandy said she and her family contacted the store to ask about a refund. I called daily and sometimes twice a day. She was eventually ordered store credit but mandy said that wasnt enough. My mom didnt get the proper criminal that she deserved because they werent there so i felt like i deserved at least an apology and some at least half of my money back. So she catted solve it 7. Talked to him about the problem. He wanted to help. I dont want anyone unhappy but times happen, people get mis miscommunication something happened. You will always have that possibility. Thats why we stand behind our work. Reporter he wrote machined machinedy a check for 138, what of the money she paid for the flowers. Thank you so much. I wouldnt have been able to do it without you. Im very grateful and im actually able to come to closure with the whole situation. Anchor you have a problem you cant get solved on your own we would love to try and he. Give us a call. Or accepted us an email to solve it 7. In the newsroom, kris anderson, 7 news. Anchor coming up at 6 00 here on 7, fining a match a Community Coming to the to help leukemia. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Her lifes work has been about breaking barriers. And so would her presidency. Which is why, for every american whos not being paid whos held back by student debt or a system tilted against them and there are far too many of you she understands that our country cant reach its potential. Unless we all do. Together. Anchor happy friday by the way if we havent said it yet, another hour of 7 news and a lot to get to ahead. Anchor 7 news at 5 30 starts right now. Now at 5 30, breaking news. Fill i chisolm sentenced to life piss on following an emotional day if court. Anchor a threatening call it a detective lands a man in court in quincy. What he told the detective he would do to his family. Anchor a word of warning about a super problem. The new super lice being found here in new england. Anchor chasing a myth. California police spent three hours trying to track down a uni unicorn. The real story behind a strange search. Anchor first at 5 30 there is breaking news. Phillip chisolm the convicted killer of conColleen Ritzer sentenced to life in prison. Rape and Armed Robbery back in december. Anchor today after powerful impact statements from ritzers family, judge david lowey called the crime brutal and senseless. Chisolm will have the possibility of parole because he is a minor. However, it wont be for 40 years before his first chance at parole actually happening. Chisolm was just 114 when he followed Colleen Ritzer into a School Bathroom where he strangled her and stabbed her 6 times. The judge called ritzer a quiet heroin after her family poured out their emotions in court. I wish i could have helped colleen but no one could have helped they are that day because no one knew what evil sat in her classroom that day. That moment in time has forever changed my family and my family familys lives. Lives. Anchor chisolms mother shared a statement sharing her