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  • Irvington Shooting: NJ’s Unsolved Christmas Tragedy

    The Star-Ledger tells us of a shooting outside of a strip club in Irvington, New Jersey on Christmas morning that left three men dead and two wounded.

    A bouncer was first killed in the line of duty a little after 12:30 a.m. Wednesday morning. Woodley Daniel was attempting to escort drunken armed guests from Slick’s Go Go Bar when the gunman stepped back and opened fire. Pierre Clervoyant Jr., the son of the club’s owner, likely tried to assist the situation and was shot and killed shortly after.

    The third victim, Mushir Cureton, has just recently died from his shooting injuries.

    Known as a “hole-in-the-wall” bar, the club has endured a recent fatality in a similar manner in 2010. Neighbors have told reporters that the neighborhood is becoming more dangerous every day.

    Not much information can be found on Woodley Daniel, but he honorably lost his life trying to protect approximately 100 people that were inside of the club. Pierre Clervoyant Jr. leaves behind a wife and young child at his death.

    There is a $10,000 reward for information that assists in a suspect’s arrest; the only information authorities have as of now is that the two suspects possibly fled the Essex County strip club in a grey sedan immediately after the incident.

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  • Danvers Homicide: Teacher, 24, Killed By Student, 14

    CNN reports tragedy out of Boston today, where a Danvers High School mathematics teacher was brutally murdered by a 14-year-old student and dumped in the woods behind the school.

    According to the Essex County District Attorney’s office, 24-year-old Colleen Ritzer was reported missing when she did not return home from school. After discovering blood in a bathroom on the second floor, they expanded the search and found her in the woods, a short distance from Danvers. Ritzer, in addition to teaching, was in the process of earning a master’s degree from Salem State University.

    Classes at Danvers were cancelled at 4:45 a.m. this morning by Danvers town officials because the police were conducting a homicide investigation. The official cause of death for the teacher was not reported.

    The suspect in the case is Philip D. Chism, also reported missing around the same time as Ritzer because he did not return home. The two knew each other from Danvers High, and Chism was new in town, having recently moved there from Tennessee.

    Chism had last been seen leaving a 4:30 p.m. matinee of Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine at 6:30. The movie theatre’s manager, Scott Przybcien, indicated to the Boston Herald that “He blended right in… I think he just was wandering, looking for a place to hide. A movie theater is a perfect place for that.”

    Police tweets indicated their search for Chism began around 9:30:

    The boy was reported found shortly after 7 a.m. this morning:

    Police had picked Chism up just past midnight, walking north on the southbound side of Route 1. He will be arraigned today in Salem court on the charge of murder.

    Here’s an interview with some students who said they knew Chism:

    Additionally, here’s a reporter who uncovered some personal details from interviewing people about Colleen Ritzer:

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