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KINGDOM CITY - A red brick building along I-70 may look finished from afar, but inside the interior work remains undone. The shell of the Missouri Firefighter Memorial was completed in 2019. That occurred when the Firefighter Memorial Board, the planning committee for the project, raised enough funds to finish exterior work. Now the board is trying to raise somewhere from $250,000 to $300,000 to complete the interior. âWe know that will happen,â Ken Hoover, Firefighter Memorial Board member, said. âThe thing that has delayed us is everything else is kind of sidestepped because of COVID. It s real hard to go out here and raise money and sit and talk to people or sell chances to a raffle when you can t meet face to face.â ....
Disturbing according to a search warrant affidavit. it shows her 14-year-old student following her into the bathroom, donning gloves and a sweatshirt with a hood up. he s seen walking in and out of the bathroom several times. 30 minutes later, he wore a black face mask. her body was found in the woods next to a handwritten note saying i hate you all. ritzer had been raped with an object. according to the affidavit, when he was picked up, he was found with a bloodstained box cutter, a pair of her underwear and credit cards. he was visibly upset the day before during a conversation where she started talking about tennessee, a place he used to live with his parents before they split. it was a stressf fuful divorce. ....
Down. her throat cut. and a note which read, i hate you all, was alongside her. prosecutors say one of her students, phillip chism, killed the teacher, raping her and killing her with a box cutter in the bathroom before dumping her body in the woods nearby. according to the documents surveillance video shows him with a hood over his head and putting on gloves before following ritzer into the restroom. the teenager was charged with murder, aggravated rape and robbery. he is charged as an adult. why? well, under massachusetts law, because of the way that they charged him, first degree murder, has to be charged as an adult. he has to go through the adult system for trial because of the type of charges it is, and that s based on the fact how heinous the actual crime itself was. what is the burden of proof ....
Phillip chism of murder, ag aggravated rape. don lemon was up in massachusetts where this happened and he is outfront with the latest. this story captured the country s attention just because of the bizarre, horrific nature of it. remime us what happened and what we re learning. it gets more horrific. if that can even happen. what we re learning, i ll tell you what happened. on october 22nd, he was in school. according to people who were there. he wasn t paying attention in class. and so miss ritzer kept him after school to make sure to try to help him. and then apparently she had to go to the bathroom. the bathroom was locked. she goes into the second floor student bathroom. he follows her in and that s when prosecutors say he killed her. that s when they believe he killed her. but they re saying tonight that he raped her and they re charging her with aggravated rape. ....
The attorney, danna chisholm says, quote, her heart is broken for the ritzer family and the loss of their daughter and sister colleen. she continues, her son was born in love and is dear, very dear to her. she s struggling to understand this. phillip chisholm is charged as an adult with the murder of colleen ritzer. police alleged he killed the algebra teacher with a box cutter and dumped her body in the woods. the obama administration may have a lot of explaining to do when this team of top german intelligence officials arrives in washington soon. the german magazine is reporting that the u.s. has been spying on german chancellor angela merkel s phone for over a decade. no surprise this is putting deep strains on relations between the two powers. cnn s jim bolden is live from london. tell us more about these latest allegations. reporter: the newspaper is one of the european newspapers that s been getting drip-fed information from the edward snowden files, that they ve been ....