The family and friends of Colleen Ritzer, a teacher who was raped and killed by one of her teenage students at Danvers High School in 2013, are asking people to perform an act of kindness in her memory.
Tuesday marked the 11-year anniversary of the murder of Ritzer, a math teacher, who was killed inside Danvers High School. She was 24 at the time.
Philip Chism, now 25, of Danvers, was just 14 years old when he strangled Ritzer, his algebra teacher, and repeatedly stabbed her with a box cutter in a Danvers High bathroom on Oct. 22, 2013. He then used a recycling bin to bring her body into nearby woods…