Pupil accused of murdering maths teacher

A POPULAR teacher allegedly killed by one of her pupils had asked him to stay after school that day, a classmate said.
By The Newsroom
Published 25th Oct 2013, 17:37 BST

Pupils at the school in Danvers, Massachusetts, met grief counsellors in a bid to come to terms with the death of Colleen Ritzer, 24.

Philip Chism, 14, has been charged with murdering the maths teacher at Danvers High School.

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Rania Rhaddaoui, who sat two seats away from Chism in Ms Ritzer’s algebra class, the final lesson of the school day, said Chism was drawing in a notebook rather than taking notes, on Tuesday.

“She came over and said, ‘I didn’t know you draw’, and he said, ‘yes’, then later on, she said, ‘Can you stay after with me?’,” Rania said. “Obviously, he stayed after because when I was leaving, he was still at his desk.”

Ms Ritzer never returned home that day. Blood in a second-floor bathroom helped lead investigators to her body, which was dumped in the woods behind the school