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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Good; they all needed to be in jail, at the least!
As a side note, I'm at a dead end in trying to locate the 19 year old Hispanic kid who was high on drugs and alcohol, and ran thru an intersection, hitting my brother's car and killing him in Southern California back in 2001. The kid only got four years in prison.
His name was Cruz Alejandro Martinez.......
I have all the documents relevant to the case, accident report, court documents and coroners report. But no knowledge of his whereabouts over these years.
Change that to KHICK-IN $}{!T...
Kwak? Karol-Chic? Who are they? Killer muppets?
Stone ALL 3 of them. And make their families watch !!!
And if the breeders are still of the capacity to make more spawns, STERILIZE THEM !!!
What the }{€££ has happened to this so called society ???
Agreed. I thought it was another drunk headline, until I read into the story. And we all know how FReepers don’t like to do that. :-)
Stone the murderer and the two who helped him.
3 friends
Bartell, Kwak and Karol-Chik
I think, that the law let you be prosecuted for murder, even if you did not really killed anybody, but your action lead to somebody death.
Like, if you are in shootout with police, and the policeman kills some innocent bystander, you may be prosecuted for that person death, as if you were the murderer.
So, in this case, it is basically immaterial, who threw the stone. All three are guilty of murder.
Two of them were smart and plead guilty, so the third one gets the biggest sentence. That’s the law, he should plead guilty too. He got some bad legal advice!
“Confusing till you read that the rock thrower was also driving”
EXACTLY!
Suicide by rock while driving.
Urinalists!
They deserve to be in jail. Callous disregard for human life will get you that...
OOPS! Sorry.
I was still thinking that the driver committed suicide by rock.
Bartell is the dead person.
Joseph Koenig, Nicolas Koral-Chik, Zachary Kwak
Pumpkins on Halloween versus parked cars is traditional in the Rust Belt.
Zach Kwak. Son of Quack Kwak?
The name Kwak is Chinese in origin and is also found in Korean families.
The name Karol-Chik is most probably a version of the Polish name Karolczyk that someone in his family “cleverly” changed to a phonic version.
The driver looks like a young, skinny Boris Johnson.
Rooks rike a duck, throws woks rike a duck...
Killjoy. I was fixin’ to pile on. You get a free pass on this one...
Starting in the 1960s, radicals went all the way to the Supreme Court to establish "rights" to:
1) Graphic violence in mediaShould I go on? Those are just the legalizations of behaviors previously considered aberrant. We could also add the increase in prosperity, increased use of illegal and legal brain-altering drugs, rise of personal communications devices and internet, marxism in education, on and on...
2) End of prayer in schools
3) End of corporal punishment in schools and homes
4) Sex education in schools
5) Birth control and cohabitation outside of marriage
6) Legal abortion
7) End of race identification in news reports of crimes
8) Liberalization of censorship of movie and television content
9) Liberalized laws around pornography
10) Increased immigration from non-European, non-Christian countries
11) Forced integration of schools, workplaces and communities
12) Lowered age of majority to 18 from 21 (1971)
13) HIPPA laws preventing parents from knowing medical information about their college-age children
Something is wrong there, somewhere
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