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<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#2b1a1a;font-size:14px"><strong>Three Colorado teens appear in court, Wednesday, charged with fatally throwing giant landscaping rock through windshield of a motorist on as she drove her car on April 19 in the Denver suburb of Arvada</strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#2b1a1a;font-size:14px"><strong><strong>Nicholas &#8216;Mitch&#8217; Karol-Chik, Joseph Koenig and Zachary Kwak, all 18, faced a judge in Jefferson County, Colorado, over the April 19 murder of Alexa Bartell, 20</strong></strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#2b1a1a;font-size:14px"><strong>Trio have already been charged with crimes including first-degree murder with extreme indifference, and now face additional counts of attempted first-degree murder, assault and attempted assault</strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#2b1a1a;font-size:14px"><strong>Alexa Bartell, 20, was returning from work around 10:45 p.m. when the large rock sailed through her window shield and fatally struck her </strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#2b1a1a;font-size:14px"><strong>The suspects doubled back and took photo of the fatal wreck which they kept as s memento</strong></h2>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color" style="color:#2b1a1a;font-size:14px"><strong>Two other drivers suffered minor injuries after the trio threw rocks at six more cars</strong></h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Alexa-Bartell-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-438651" width="839" height="822"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Alexa Bartell, 20, was returning from work around 10:45 p.m. when the large rock sailed through her window shield and fatally struck her</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Three teenage boys from Denver, Colorado, appeared in court Wednesday accused of killing a 20 year-old woman by hurling a rock through the windshield of her car. <br>The suspects &#8211; Nicholas &#8216;Mitch&#8217; Karol-Chik, Joseph Koenig and Zachary Kwak &#8211; all 18-year-old high school students, appeared before district court judge Christopher C. Zenisek during an arraignment in Jefferson County district court in Golden Gate. <br>They defendants had been earlier charged with first-degree murder in the the death of 20-year-old female motorist, Alexa Bartell on April 19 in Arvada, a suburb of Denver..<br>In the addition to the murder charge, the trio now face additional counts of assault and attempted assault. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Alexa-Bartells-damaged-car-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-438657" width="844" height="456"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Alexa Bartell was driving the Chevy Spark [photo] when a rock came crashing through the front windshield. She was killed in the incident. She had been on the phone with a friend who used the GPS to track her down and found her dead</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The defendants each face one count of first-degree murder with extreme indifference, six counts of attempted first-degree murder, three counts of second-degree assault and three counts of attempted second-degree assault. <br>The extreme indifference charge alleges the men knowingly created a “grave risk of death,” without caring who was injured or killed, resulting in Bartell’s death.<br>Those charges relate to other incidents of rocks being hurled resulting in damages to more vehicles and causing injury to motorists, for which prosecutors claim the defendants were also responsible. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Alexa-Bartells-damaged-windshield-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-438655" width="836" height="449"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Photo reveals the extent of the damage caused to Bartell&#8217;s car during the rock throwing attack by the high school trio of Karol-Chik, Koenig and Kwak on evening of April 19</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">At Wednesday&#8217;s arraignment Karol-Chik, Koenig and Kwak sat next to each other in the dock &#8211; the first time they&#8217;ve seen each other since being arrested over the killing of Alexa, which saw a huge rock hurled through the windshield of her yellow Chevy Spark.<br>According to the Jefferson County Sheriff´s Office, Alexa Bartell was talking on the phone with a friend while driving in her yellow Chevy Spark at 10:45pm on April 19 in Arvada, Suburban Denver, when she was hit by the rock. <br>After the call went silent, the friend tracked Bartell&#8217;s location with a phone app, drove to her, and found the woman dead in her car, which had crashed into a field. <br>The defendants later returned to the wreck to take a photo of the car as a &#8216;memento&#8217;, Karol-Chik told investigators when questioned.<br>They group it is alleged, also attacked six other cars in Arvada on April 19, First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King announced.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong> Nicholas &#8216;Mitch&#8217; Karol-Chik, Zachary Kwak, and <strong>Joseph Koenig,</strong></strong> <strong>all 18, hard <strong>been charged with crimes including first-degree murder, and now face additional counts of assault and attempted assault</strong></strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">During a brief afternoon court hearing, the lawyers all declined to have the charges read.<br>Karol-Chik told investigators that Koenig slowed down so Kwak could get a photo of Bartell&#8217;s car after it crashed into a field. He said all three got excited every time they hit a car with landscaping rocks taken from a Walmart parking lot, but acknowledged he felt &#8216;a hint of guilt&#8217; passing by her car, according to court documents.<br>Kwak said he took the photo because he thought that Karol-Chik or Koenig would want to have a &#8216;memento&#8217; of what had happened, according to the arrest affidavits.<br>He reportedly told the others: &#8216;We have to go back and see that.&#8217; </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Nicholas-Mitch-Karol-Chik-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-439525" width="842" height="545"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Murder suspect Nicholas &#8216;Mitch&#8217; Karol-Chik sitting through his arraignment in Jefferson County district court in Golden, Colorado, <strong>on Wednesday</strong></strong></p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Joseph-Koenig-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-439513" width="838" height="538"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Joseph Koenig listens listens to district court judge Christopher C. Zenisek during an arraignment on Wednesday. He was described by a friend as someone who likes creating &#8216;chaos&#8217; and would often act in a destructive manner</strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Zachary Kwak listens in court during an arraignment on Wednesday. During his police interview Karol-Chik claimed that Kwak threw the rock that killed Bartell. The rock throwing trio were meeting for the first time since their arrest</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">During interviews with police, two men accused each other of throwing the fatal rock. Karol-Chik claims Kwak threw the rock that killed Bartell.<br>Karol-Chik told investigators with the Jefferson County Sheriff´s Office that he and Koenig had thrown rocks and even a statue at passing cars on at least 10 other days before Bartell was killed. Kwak heard about what they had been doing and asked to join them, according to Karol-Chik&#8217;s account in the affidavits.<br>Karol-Chik and Kwak offered different accounts about who threw the fatal rock.<br>Koenig did not speak to investigators after he was arrested, according to the arrest affidavits.<br>&#8216;This was an extremely reckless and irresponsible situation that the defendant was involved in that, unfortunately, cost the life of a very innocent and very young woman in this case,&#8217; Prosecutor Padraic Emerine said.<br>A friend of the trio told police he&#8217;d watched them several hours earlier as they loaded a truck with landscaping rocks taken from a Walmart parking lot. The friend claimed the three boys picked up &#8216;as many as they could carry&#8217;.<br>He said he knew &#8216;something bad was going to happen&#8217; so asked Koenig, Karol-Chik and Kwak to take him home.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Zachary-Kwak-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-439512" width="841" height="819"/></figure>



<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>After the attack which killed Bartell, it is alleged that Kwak [photo], told the others: &#8216;We have to go back and see that.&#8217; He then took a photo of the car, which had careered of the road, as a &#8216;memento&#8217; for Karol-Chik</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The three alleged killers then patrolled roads in the area and searched for passing cars to target.<br>Kwak said they would use &#8216;marine terms&#8217; when launching the rocks, saying: &#8216;Mitch would say things like, ‘contact left,’ before Joseph would throw the rock at a car on the left side of theirs.&#8217;<br>He said the rock which killed Bartell made a &#8216;very loud noise&#8230; like a rail gun&#8217; when it made contact with her windshield.<br>Koenig was described by a friend as someone who likes creating &#8216;chaos&#8217; and would often act in a destructive manner.<br>&#8216;Joseph and Mitch were talking about them now being ‘blood brothers’ and they could never speak of the incident,&#8217; Kwak added.<br>The three met up the following day to &#8216;get their stories straight&#8217;.<br>They had thrown rocks at vehicles on about ten occasions since February. Six other cars were damaged and two more drivers were injured on the night Bartell was killed.<br><br></p>

Three Colorado teens in court, charged with murder, assault, after throwing giant landscaping rocks at cars – one went through the windshield and killed a 20-year-old female driver, two other motorists were injured by rocks
