Minor and he has the chance of probably now after spending 40 years in prison. So a judge now sentencing chisolm to prison for raping and murdering Colleen Ritzer. Sentences will be served at the same time and as you were saying because of hisage he does have the possibility of parole after 40 years so earlier today family and friends of Colleen Ritzer gave their victim impact statements which is what always happens before a judge decides on the sentence including colleens mother who called chisolm evil. I wish i could have helped colleen but no one could have helped her 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. Anchor chisolms mother was also in court today and she said that she knows no one has suffered more than colleen ritz ritzers family. Here on 7 news at 4 30 a man. Anchor that man wassing aly already under investigation live in quincy with all of the detail for us. Dan . R
Bell respect for the ritzer family as they continue their journey to heal. Anchor terrifying threat against the quincy detective. Police say this man left a menac menacing message threatening the lives of the detectives family. Dan hausle live in quincy now with what prosecutors revealed in court a little earlier today. Dan . Reporter prosecutors say this guy has been in and out of jail. He has been convicted almost more then a dozen times for a variety of charge. They say threats against officers still are kind of common but when you make a threat against an officers family, well thats something else. Salvatore mendez back behind bars leaving one detectives and his family breathing easier. Investigators say the detective had gotten an arrest warrant for break breaking and entering when mendez left a troubling message on the detectives voice mail. He told the detective that he was going to kill him and his family tonight. This threat was did you to recent court cases that he has with m
Eyeopener. Frank good morning. Its saturday, october 10. Im frank holland. Antoinette im Antoinette Antonio. Good to have you with us. A rough start to the Holiday Weekend in central massachusetts. Powerful winds taking down trees in the town of monson. In some places, there was so much debris that roads had to be blocked off. This is the same town devastated by a tornado back in 2011. Looks like most of that weather has moved out of area. Thats right. The cold front that brought us the rain and the heavy winds pushing well to the south. High pressure building in. You notice around High Pressure the winds go clockwise so we do developed. Persistent out there. Youre going to feel them when you step outside the door first thing this morning. Clouds. Still have a little bit around the cape and the islands but beginning to finally clear things out. We should see full sunshine once we get to the afternoon. Starting out this morning, 50 degrees in boston. 42 degrees in worcester. 43 in keene
Much debris that roads had to be blocked off. This is the same town devastated by a tornado back in 2011. No reports of severe damage, but power lines did come down knocking out electricity to parts of the town. Thankfully it looks like some of that has moved out. Frank no Severe Weather here. Right, danielle. Danielle thats right, frank and antoinette. That system that brought the weather yesterday evening now pushing off the coastline. You can see it. It was a cold front and High Pressure now building in for the weekend which means well see a lot of sunshine as we go through the next couple of days. We do have some clouds out there right now especially in southeastern mass, on the cape and the islands. But theyre going to move out of here this morning. Once they do, all of us will see sunshine by afternoon. Temperatures this morning starting in the lower 40s in and around worcester. 46 in concord. 51 in boston. 55 already on nantucket. So its mild in some locations. One thing youre g
Well continue to update this breaking story, on air, online and on our mobile apps. Good morning to all of you. Im frank holland. Antoinette and im antoinette the day. You know what, danielle . All that rain has moved out so its really sunny out there. Snafn p. Danielle antoinette and frank, the sun is beaming out there this morning although its a chilly start to your day. We have strong persistent winds out of the north and west. As antoinette mentioned that cold front that brought us the rain pushing off shore. High pressure is building in which means we are going to see lots of sunshine as we go through the day. Now were starting in the 50s in boston as well as on the cape and islands. But this the lower 40s in worcester. Jaffrey checking in at 42 this morning. Concord at 46 degrees. As we go through the next 12 hours in the Merrimack Valley notice temperatures will bump up into the upper 50s. Were cooling back down to 49 by 8 00 p. M. Tonight. Obviously showing you that were in for