philip chism, by way of arrest. of this year in danvers. it's alleged on 10-23-13, mr. ssault 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. >> i want to bring in hln's jane velez-mitchell from new york. just to talk about this case, and let me just begin, jane, here he is, 14 years of age. faces a murder charge. how rare is that that he is 14 and facing that kind of charge? >> well, unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be that rare anymore. just a couple days ago, as you mentioned, we had a 12-year-old with a semiautomatic who police say gunned down his math teacher and wounded a couple other kids. what is going on in this country? i think it's time to officially declare it a crisis. a crisis of youth violence. and i think there's a growing intolerance for it. in fact, the judge was asked, do we want to screen this young man here, his face? and he said no, show it. this young man is 14, but he's 6 feet tall. he towers over the adult who is standin

mr. philip chism beat colleen ritzer and murdered and did kill and murder such person. >> did that boy murdercher? it's our big crime story. the 14-year-old suspect. colleen's body found in the woods in the massachusetts high school where she taught. don lemon is live with details. an awful case, a 14-year-old boy arraigned there today on suspected effectively beating to death this very beloved teacher at his school. one of his own teachers. who do we know about this case? >> reporter: well, we know now that prosecutors will try him as an adult. and that will be up to the grand jury to decide whether or not they try him as an adult. we know, piers, he's being held at the essex county house of corrections. it's not a juvenile facility. an adult facility. but they have made room for him there and we know that there is going to be a probable cause hearing on november 22nd. but still, no motive and the only relationship that we know that they had was that he was indeed a student in her math class, piers. >> the only clue at the moment was blood found in an upstairs room and led them to find her b