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"Phillip Chism, a 14-year-old transfer student from Tennessee, has been taken into custody and is being held without bail after pleading not guilty for murdering Colleen Ritzer, a popular 24-year-old math teacher at Danvers High School outside of Boston, MA. Ritzer was described as a passionate teacher who encouraged her students, often through her personal Twitter account. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s just surreal how quickly someone can go, and how much we take for granted every day,&amp;quot; said Chris Weimert, a student at the school. Ritzer was &amp;quot;the nicest teacher you could ever have...I can&amp;#039;t believe it.&amp;quot; Authorities have not revealed how Ritzer died, but reports allege Chism stabbed the teacher before he went to the movies. Officials haven&amp;#039;t released any possible motive for the murder, but Chism&amp;#039;s uncle, Terrance Blaine, told ABC that the teenager &amp;quot;might have been upset.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;You know teenagers go through that. He&amp;#039;s 14, growing up still. That&amp;#039;s the only thing that I can imagine because I can&amp;#039;t imagine anything else. It&amp;#039;s like a story-book kid. Perfect family,&amp;quot; Blaine shared. Students on Chism&amp;#039;s junior varsity soccer team described him as a friendly and driven boy who had connected with them easily. Police were trying to locate Chism yesterday after he was reported missing, and later, Ritzer was also reported missing when she didn&amp;#039;t come home or pick up her cell phone. Police discovered blood in a school bathroom, and found the slain teacher behind the high school after searching the grounds. Chism &amp;quot;did assault and beat Colleen Ritzer with intent to murder such person and by such assault and beating did kill and murder such person,&amp;quot; said an official in court. All public schools in the town were closed yesterday, but are resuming their normal schedule today. Danvers High School will remain closed until Friday. Our thoughts go out to Ritzer&amp;#039;s family, students and friends. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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