the trial of phillip chisolm, the danvers teacher accused of murdering another is underway. it was a heartbreaking and emotional morning for the mother of colleen ritzer. >> and nicole jacobs is live with more on the case being lady out today. and a big admission in court this morning, nicole. >> reporter: yes. poignant and emotional. both sides presented their opening statements about that deadly day and the events leading up to it. with her head bowed, the mother sobbed at the gruesome details of what her daughter endured. the prosecution laying out the events of october 22nd, 2049 and that is the day they say the then 49-year-old phillip chisolm had a despicable plan. >> he had a blue sweatshirt with a hood is, gloves and a mask and a box cutter. >> reporter: that was the beginning, leading to after school when investigators said that he killed her. the defendant used the box cutter he had to cut her throat. >> phillip chisolm killed colleen and dunn speakable things -- and did unspeakable things. >> reporter: that is the defense that he lost a grasp on reality because of

a stunning situation here on day 2 for phillip chisolm. he flat out refused to return to court after e morning recess and this is inside of course, the defense is arguing that this page mental health report that he was competent to stand trial l began yesterday. and this is the first bit of behavior, if you will, that we have seen from phillip chisolm of this nature and from this particular trial. of course, what led to that mental health evaluation initially was something milar where court officers observed chisolm him banging his head against the ll walls and floors and that was something that was alarming to them as well. of course, they implemented that mental health evaluation for chisolm. this comes on an emotional day for the ritzer family. we heard from the mother this morning. let's listen to what she had to say. >> her day was very routine from the minute she got to she was always like that. >> and she would come hope. because i worked at home, she would come into the office to ask how my day was and then he i could ask her about

accused killer phillip chisolm's legal defense ready to start its case in court. prosecutors wrapping up their witness list today in this case of the danvers teen-ager. jurors heard from one of the last people to see this high school math teacher, colleen it itter, alive. steve cooper is outside of salem superior court with detail on what happened in court today. >>> kim, it all prosecutors called 36 witnesses to the stand before resting tear case earlier this afternoon. but not before those jurors list listened to troubling testimony from the medical examiner. the images of erie. danvers high surveyance footage shown to the jury and that's colleen ritzer on the left and her friend also a math teacher sharing a light moment in the hallway after school back in october of 2013. wearing the similar clothes as part of spirit week and dress like your friend day. that moment would end in murder minutes later for ritzer when prosecutors say phillip chisolm who was 14 followed his 24 girl's bathroom and brutally murdered her. wiping tears away on the stand, she says hours

. >> anchor: also on 7, new evidence comes to lie in the phillip chisolm trial. jurors take a look at what the teen did in the hours after his high school teacher was murdered murdered. the teen is accused in that murder and today the jury saw surveillance video of chisolm using the victim's credit cards. steve cooper has the very latest latest. steve? >> reporter: well, testimony wrapped up early today. in fact, it's now concluded for remainder of the week because of the thanksgiving holiday so jurors here at the courthouse were sent hole earlier this afternoon but more chilling im images captured on surveillance video shown to jurors today. images of what phillip chisolm was up to in the hours after prosecutors say he murdered his math teacher. surveillance video from a danvers movie theater shows a using a credit card to purchase a ticket to the movies hours after prosecutors say he raped, strangled and stabbed his 24 24-year-old math teacher to death inside danvers high back in 2013. >>> it lists the type of credit card and then the name. >>> what is the name

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. >>> there are new questions if chris phillip chisolm can continue in his trial. he said that could not return to the courtroom and was afraid that would he hurt someone. >> reporter: it was not the first time that he pretty shut down. last month, a mental evaluation delayed the trial for three weeks and again today, everything came to a halt when he refused to go into the courtroom. the see the next to the defense attorneys is empty because phillip chisolm refused to come out. and what the judge himself checked up on this him. >> did he not respond to the court or counsel questions and was lying on the floor mumbling with his eyes closed. >> reporter: he said that he was in the throws of a psychotic episode when he raped and killed his math teacher. he started this day staring straight ahead. the alleged victim's mother testified about the day she never came home two years ago. >>dy try to call her on several occasions. one time the phone did ring several times before it went to voicemail and when i tried it again later it went to vice mail. >> reporter: prosecut

the big takeaway, the judge determined phillip chisolm is competent to stand trial and the results of the mental health report given to the court by the way of a 67-page report will get to you some video from inside the courtroom there morning. of course, you can see a much different looking 16-year-old. he has had a haircut, different from what we have seen the last few proceedings. the findings of his mental health evaluation will remain under seal. and court officers reported-- reportedly witnessed him banging his head against walls and floors of the holding cell and he was said to be non- responsive to a court clinician and this is a judge explaining why he believes chisolm is competent. >> based on having read the report, the court finds that mr. chisolm has a present ability to consult with his attorney and -- [ indiscernible ] rationale is outstanding of the proceedings against him. happy to understand the process and his ability to function in that process. >> so, the defense requested a the judge ultimately denying chisolm's attorney called the anniversary of the death and th

. >> anchor: more disturbing evidence shown in the phillip chisolm murder trial. he is accused of murdering and racing his teacher colleen ritz . >> anchor: today the jury saw chilling video showing him just moments after ritzer was killed. dan hausle has the latest from the courtroom. >> reporter: accused teen killer phillip chisolm seen wear wearing a massing as he roll a recycling bin out of a women's bathroom at dan very high. the chilling image shown in court that docked his movements killed. the time stamp on the image shows it was minutes after ritz ritzer walked into the rest room followed by chisolm. she is not seen walking out. a state trooper testified chisolm's was found on the recycling been he is seen on video retrieving and bringing too the bathroom. prosecutors say to move ritzer's body from the bloody bathroom to the woods behind the school where ritzer's body was found covered in leaves. jurors took a deep breath when shown pictures of ritzer's body. the pictures passed by hand, sharing her mother from the chisolm looked away as classmates who st

the first video shows phillips- chisolm walking into a gas his high school teacher. a store manager testified that it appeared chaseom was looking for a clock. the jury saw a video of colleen ritzer on the day of hear murder talking with a fellow teacher in -- day of her murder talking with a fellow teacher in the hallway. it was dress like your friend day at school. and a forensic pathologist was on the stand and we'll have more for you tonight on the wbz news at 5. >> and at noon, the first trial in the death of freddy gray is underway. the jury selection began for a baltimore police officer charged in the death of 25-year- old gray. he died in april after being critically injured in the back of a police van. violent riots broke out in baltimore afterward. six police officers are charged in his death. >>> and new at noon, a close video from outside of a fire captain's home shows an suv stopped to let two women and children cross the street and -- the suv narrowly avoids the group as they jump back and luckily no one was hurt. and that is a close call there, though.

a compelling morning in court that started with phillip chisolm saying he didn't want to appear for his trial and seeing the if of the time. let's look her -- that we're seeing here for the first time. this is video from inside danvers high school. we know chisolm is accused of following into the women's restroom and we see him following. we see him pace back and forth at the door of that restroom and going inside an emergency -- and emerging with the sweatshirt over his head and this comes after they agree the client is competent to stand trial and chisolm agrees to be present. light lessen. >> and you want to give up that right to be present and be here to confront, see the witnesses and the cross examination? you want to be present? you want to be present during the trial? >> reporter: i should point out the jury was not present for that conversation with chisolm and the judge. the trial is moving forward and again seeing the video for the first time. i can also tell you the judge did tell him if at any point he felt he didn't want to be present for his own trial, if he could make th

. >> reporter: this is not the first time that phillip chisolm has simply shut down. the attorney said that she could not get him to return to the courtroom. and when the judged checked in the floor with his eyes closed mumbling incoherently. >> reporter: notice who is not in his usual spot, the teenager on trial, philip chisolm. >> he said i cannot take this any more. i cannot come out. i don't want to hurt anyone. >> we've been down this row before. >> reporter: he spent 20 days at a mental hospital for a mental evaluation last month. the judge said that he was competent to stand trial. and he made it through day one and day two and the jurors saw his alleged victim for the first time, his 24-year-old math teacher colleen ritzer. and her mother recalling that day she never came home. >> the only thing that i could have thought could have happened was that maybe she had been in a car accident or something. >> reporter: jurors saw the evidence later discover in the woods behind danvers high school. and just before the prosecutor brought out the recycling begin to move

prosecutors showing jurors the murder weapon phillip chisolm us used to kill his math teacher danvers high two years ago. the defendant strangled colleen. the defendant used the box cutter he had to cut or slice her throat. >> reporter: his attorney admitting the then 14-year-old murdered ritzer but why she said . >>> why did a 14-year-old boy, well behaved, quiet, one month into high school do these terrible things? . >> reporter: he showed no emotion as a topsfield police officer who lobed him on route 1 took the stand describing how he was carrying ritzer's license and credit cards and a broady box cutter which is when they asked him whose blood it was. he asked who the blood belonged to. . >>> how did the defendant respond . >>> he said it's the girl's. >> reporter: testimony resumes first thing tomorrow morning. intend to call colleen ritzer's mother to the stand. live in salem tonight, steve cooper, 7 news. >> anchor: and there is more news today. a person has died after a crash in ashland overnight. the person was walking on the side of route 135, authorities have not released

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the court was presented with new evidence including surveillance video that shows phillip chisolm wheeling a trash bin out of the school. those are actually still pictures. prosecutors saying that the 16 16-year-old put math teacher colleen ritzer in that barrel then carried her outside to dispose of her body. 7's steve cooper is following the trial in salem and brings us up to date. steve? >>> kim, really just more disturbing pictures for the ritz ritzer family to sit in the courtroom and watch and also prosecutors say shows fill i in inchisolm going to the movies just hours after his math teacher had been murdered. >>> this is our box office area. >> reporter: just hours after prosecutors say first ilchisolm savagely murdered his mast teacher surveyance video played at the trial shows the accuse killer, then 14, buying a movie ticket at a danvers theater. the manager of the theater test testified chisolm used colleen ritzer's credit card to purchase the ticket. >>> it's lists the type of credit card then the name. >>> what is the name? >>> the name is ritzer, colleen. >> reporter: there

minutes later, prosecutors say ritzer was savagely murdered by one her students and 14-year-old phillip chisolm. on the stand and wiping tears away she testified she had seen a boy in ritzer's classroom after school but only later identify him from the security . >>> who did you red sox ago that person as? >>> did you recognize him as the opinion you saw in colleen's classroom that afternoon? >> reporter: the medical examiner spent two hours in the on the stand describing in gruesome detail the cause of death . >>> her cause of death was sharp force injuries of the neck and as fixia by strangulation . >> reporter: after jurors were excused for the day, the defense was asking the judge to drop one of the rape charges against their client. but prosecutors opposed it . >>> the commonwealth suggestion is that this was a sexually motivated homicide and that he didn't get a chance to finish the sexual assault in the bathroom and he did something else in the woods. >> reporter: so first thing in the morning the defense will start calling their own witnesses to the stand building chisolm committed the

the jury was also shown video of the phillip chisolm in the moment after colleen ritzer was killed. dan hausle has the latest from . >> reporter: accused killer chris only seen wearing a mask. the chilling image from i area so esooh of video keeps that docked his mopes the day colleen ritzer was killed. the time stamp on image shows it was minutes after ritzer walked into the rest room followed by chisolm. she is not seen walking out. a state trooper testified chisolm's fingerprint was found on the recycling been he is seen on video retrieving and bringing into the bathroom. prosecutors say to move ritzer's body from the bloody bathroom to the woods behind the school where ritzer's body was found covered in leaves. jurors took a deep breath when shown pictures of ritzer's body. the pictures passed by hand being sparing her mother from the site. chisolm looked away as classmates who still call him a friend describe the accused killer's and seemingly unaffect unaffected demeanor the day ritz ritzer was killed. one teen says he offered to help chisolm with the bin he was dragging to th

phillip chisolm is charged with raping and killing his math teacher at danvers high school. lawyers will start presenting their case in salem on monday. he is as you cooed racing and killing 24-year-old colleen ritz ritzer in a bath room at danvers high school back in 2013. police found her body in the woods near the school. >> anchor: a woman who said she was injured in the boston marathon bombing admits she made up some of her story. joanna lee claimed she was a victim. she began having second thoughts and changed her plea though after fighting for unneeded financial and medical help. she pleaded guilty to defrauding the one fund. >> anchor: she did a stupid thing sheaf made a claim for stuff that she didn't need to . >> anchor: we will not face any jail time. the judge ordered her to repay all of the money that she did receive, perform 300 hours of community service and serve three years of probation. >> anchor: still ahead this morning, our coverage continues on the attacks in paris. the latest on the efforts to secure the border in france and latest information on the a

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