Posted on 04/25/2025 1:38:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The last of three friends accused of killing a driver in Colorado by throwing a rock through the windshield of her car was convicted of first-degree murder Friday.
The teens were driving around suburban Denver in 2023, throwing rocks at passing cars, when one struck and killed 20-year-old Alexa Bartell in a crime prosecutors classified as murder.
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On April 19, 2023, after seeing Bartell’s car leave the road after being hit, the three friends circled back a few times to look again, according to testimony and investigators. One of them, Kwak, took a photo as a memento, but no one checked on the driver or called for help, according to their testimony.
Bartell’s body would not be discovered until her girlfriend, Jenna Griggs, who was on the phone with her that night when the call abruptly cut out, tracked her phone to the field, she testified. The only DNA found on the fatal rock was Bartell’s, making the testimony from Kwak and Karol-Chik key to the prosecution.
About a week later, Karol-Chik pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and committing a crime of violence. He also pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder for throwing rocks at a total of nine people that night and earlier in 2023. Under his plea agreement, Karol-Chik could be sent to prison for between 35 and 72 years when he is sentenced.
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Kwak?
Its Colorado - time served and stern letter.
“Driver convicted of first-degree murder in case of Colorado teens who threw fatal rock at car ...
The last of three friends accused of killing a driver”
Confusing till you read that the rock thrower was also driving.
Karol-chik?
Kwak and Karol-Chik
Yogi?
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I think the three perpetrators were all white boys in this case.
One of them, Kwak, took a photo as a memento, but no one checked on the driver or called for help, according to their testimony.
Looks like the testimony was deliberately shifty in order to muddy the waters and make an appeal easier.
Tie them up and have people throw rocks at them.
“Let’s throw rocks at cars”
“Sounds good to me”
What the hell?
That would explain the first degree murder conviction.
White boys don’t qualify for “restorative justice.”
Thanks.
Instead of “Yogi” I should have speculated “Luke Skywalker.”
5.56mm
Idiots they be
I like the way you think.
Unicorns!
“Fatal Rock?”
Sounds like the name of a 1980s Goth Death Metal band.
Ah! The joys of youth.
Crazy people in this world. Teens, I guess they can do stupid things. Once as a teen I was sitting on a bus bench someone shot either BB or pellet or slingshot metal bering at me. It missed and cracked the window behind me. Was loud. No gunshot, that’s why I suspect a slingshot. Could’ve gone straight through my eye like Moe Green.
Judging by their looks, I can’t say any of the three has an IQ high enough to be considered Human.
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