Cops: Teen Accused of Killing, Raping His Teacher Said 'I Became the Teacher' After MurderInside Edition Monday, October 5, 2015

Cops: Teen Accused of Killing, Raping His Teacher Said 'I Became the Teacher' After MurderInside Edition Monday, October 5, 2015
Caitlin Nolan


A teenager accused of brutally raping and killing his math teacher at school allegedly told police he "became the teacher" after she set him off with a "trigger" word.
Philip Chism is headed to trial as an adult in Massachusetts on Wednesday. In 2013, he was charged for the murder, rape and robbery of his algebra teacher, 24-year-old Colleen Ritzer, who was found with her throat slit by a box cutter in the woods near their Danvers school.

She was sexually assaulted twice, once with a stick, and a note was found nearby that read “I hate you all,” the Associated Press reported.
On October 22, 2013, Ritzer asked Chism, then 14 and in ninth grade, to stay after class when she noticed he was drawing in a notebook instead of taking notes, student Rania Rhaddaoui reportedly said at the time.
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Another student who overheard Ritzer and Chism speaking that day told police that when Ritzer mentioned Tennessee, where Chism previously lived, the boy became “visibly upset” and began talking to himself, according court documents.
School surveillance footage reportedly shows Chism following Ritzer into a school bathroom wearing a hood and gloves. The boy— described as quiet and a standout athlete on the soccer field— walked out of the bathroom alone 12 minutes later, AP reported.
Chism was then seen in the video pulling a recycling barrel through the school and outside; the bin was later found near Ritzer’s body, according to search warrant documents filed in court.
Ritzer, who described herself on social media as a "Math teacher often too excited about the topics I'm teaching," was found partially covered by leaves in a wooded area near the school.