heartbroken. i don t know what to say. i knew the kid, played soccer. it amazes me. the students here in danvers say they will hold a vigil tonight in their teacher s memory. her family released a statement about an hour ago calling her an amazing and beautiful sister and daughter. and of course, a teacher, brooke. alexandra for us in danvers. thank you. vinnie politan, my question for you, we re waiting to see whether or not this 14-year-old is indicted as an adult. it s up to the grand jury to make the decision. how do they do that? they decide if it fulfills the requirement. under massachusetts law, a juvenile as young as fran can be charged as an adult in court. that changes the game immensely. what do you think it struck me, the speed of all this. the teacher was found in the woods, the young man was found around 12:30 this morning, and now we see the pictures of him in the courtroom. is that fast? it s fast, but here s part of
freshmen and know she is missed by so many right now struggling to understand what could have possibly happened, how it could have happened. and there s a tremendous burden on parents to try to find the right language to describe this to kids, schools across danvers shut down today. this is the kind of burd that parents with children of all ages have to find a way to discuss and help these children through. we re looking at her fasbook page. just tragic. 24 years old. thank you so much, alexandre. want to bring in mike brooks on the phone to talk a little bit about what we think is happening is law enforcement analyst and former d.c. police investigator. mike, we talk about these kinds of things all the times which is the sad thing when you think about it as so often we talk about these situations happening whether it s inside the school or right outside of the school. do you think first of all, the case in massachusetts, the fact that seven schools in the district were all shut down
school. the teacher colleen ritzer was reported missing on tuesday. now, police did not release the boy s name because of his age. they say there are no other suspects. and now this. it was just two days ago that a teacher was killed trying to stop a student who opened fire at a middle school in nevada. two students were wounded in that incident and the alleged shooter a seventh grader then killed himself. want to find out more information. the situation in massachusetts, alexandre field is in danvers. alexandre, first of all, we don t know very much about what happened here. why do they suspect that this boy was charged and linked with the killing of this teacher? reporter: well, suzanne, we do know that a much beloved teacher is gone. now, she was reported missing yesterday. police have linked her death to a 14-year-old who was also reported missing for a period of time yesterday. they re filling in a lot of answers for us right now. police have been on the scene here in danvers al
massachusetts. another school in crime scene tape instead of in class. this is a second case in two days of a student allegedly killing a teacher. this afternoon, prosecutors outside of boston charged 14-year-old philip chism with murder. this is the matter of philip chism by way of arrest docket 3472 of this year in danvers. it s alleged on 10-23-13, mr. philip chism did assault and beat colleen ritzer with intent to murder such person, and by such assault and beating, did kill and murder such person. in violation of general law chapter 265 section 1. the teacher here, colleen ritzer, 24 years of age. she was a teacher at danvers high school. danvers. and these are pictures from her facebook, her twitter pages. investigators say they found her
received a report that a danvers high school teacher had not returned home from work and was not answering her cell phone. as a result of that report, danvers police initiated a search for the teacher and discovered blood in the second-floor bathroom at denvers high school. alexander fields is live there in danvers. we saw the first few pictures of the 14-year-old inside this courtroom. what happened today there? well, brooke, it was just about an hour ago, he was arraigned on the murder charge. he was ordered held without bail. he s since been taken to essex county correctional facility. that s an adult facility and the suspect at the middle of the murder accusations is a 14-year-old, but we re told the district attorney will now present this case to a grand jury. if the grand jury indicts him as an adult, he will be tried as an adult. again, a 14-year-old. students here at danvers high school are telling us he was a student here, a freshman student who had been at the high school