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>> in this case, the defendant wishes to have services to evaluate him. i think the case speaks for itself. >> reporter: that decision was not made today. he will be held without bail at a county jail facing a murder charge. as a community struggles to answer the question, why? >> that was our don lemmon reporting from danvers. we are told now that the suspect was actually in colleen ritzers math class and that even though hes 14 years old he is going to be tried as an adult. and now to a whit...

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, hes being held at the essex county house of corrections. its 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 mome...

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, with e 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, hes being held at the essex county, an adult facility but they have made room for him there and we know that there is going...

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 body, is that right? >> reporter: yeah, they -- police got a call from the parents because she didnt show up. she was still living with her parents ...

And, sadly, its brutal, but he used a boxcutter, punched her, used a boxcutter, and put her body into a recycling bin and then removed it and threw it in the woods. and also that was caught on videotape, a number of video cameras here at the school. again, the question is, why? no one knows exactly why. as a matter of fact, as were speaking now, suzanne, an autopsys being done. >> don, do we have any sense at all whether or not there was any kind of relationship between this student, he was a st...

And some of the students we spoke to yesterday, one of them here on cnn talked about phillip chism and knowing him. take a listen. >> he did have friends. he wasnt like too friendly, though. he only had certain friends. he wasnt outgoing to everyone. like in classes he would only talk to a select few people. he was new, too. so like le didnt have, like, the amount of friends as everyone else. >> reporter: and that student and other students said they saw him in class that morning. she saw him in...

I love what bob corker said. bob corker said i may not have gone to harvard but i can count. ted cruz went to harvard, he didnt take a math class. the ivy league doesnt teach math because how could a poor country boy like myself or bob corker, a poor country boy like myself or bob corker from the foot hills of tennessee know how to count to 51 but a harvard and princeton guy didnt? dont they teach that at harvard any more? >> you can choose to take it. >> the backlash from their own party was so...

Said should to be done and then they surrender. this retreat has outraged colleagues and conservative hill staffers and they reportedly are calling the senator from texas quote an amateur they are not the only people saying that. >> nancy pelosi is more well-liked around here. senators mike lee, marco rubio and cruz quote are like the kids in high school who would yell fight fight fight but have never thrown a punch in their entire life. congressman sean duffy said congressmen cruz and rubio ref...

Didnt help him, eric. >> he ended up cheating. and his head got giant. >> whats the biggest cheating thing you ever did? >> i dont cheat. i sat in a trading pit with 3,000 guys on a trading floor, they were stealing and cheated? >> i never did. not once. i hate it. my father taught me -- >> how about at school. how about a girlfriend? >> if you only gave him a five, you give him the money back, no im very honest that way to a fault. i will tell you the biggest cheating scandal in the history of ...

Of their mind. >> i was literally sitting in the back of math class my senior year in high school. and i was trying to figure out a way to listen to the ipod shuffle without a way for my teacher to realize it. >> so he came home from school with an idea on a piece of paper. i dont know what it was on. i was, like, great idea. develop it. do it. >> literally, i went home, prototyped this product out of ribbon and gift wrap and created a lanyard headphone so the only distance i needed to clear was...