He was charged today with attempted murder and numerous other offenses in the attack on the detention worker.
His lawyer has asked the court to excuse him from his next scheduled appearance in September because of the "stress it causes him."
Can you believe this?!?!
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/massachusetts-teen-accused-of-killing-teacher-in-court-for-beating-case/
Philip Chism, 15, made sure he wasn't being watched, took off his footwear to muffle his footsteps, then crouched down as he made his way along a corridor before following the 29-year-old woman into the locker room at Metro Youth Services facility in Boston on June 2, prosecutor Mark Zanini told a judge in Boston Juvenile Court.
Chism, with a pencil in his hand, pushed the woman against the wall in the bathroom, choked her, and then hit her in the head with his fists, Zanini said. "The victim was trying to scream but it was ineffective because her airway was closed by virtue of the defendant's strangling her," he said.
After getting Chism's hand off her neck, the prosecutor said the woman screamed and other facility workers pulled Chism away from her.
She suffered injuries to her face, jaw, neck and back, and got a hole in the back of her shirt that was the same size as a pencil, which was found on the floor, Zanini said.