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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Bartell was the victim.
The perpetrators were Koenig, Kwak and Karol-Chik.
Sorry; did not see your correction first.
Looking at the mugshot, he is going to have a lot of late night callers in his cell.
KKK
They must not have known they were dealing with Moe Green. Moe Green!
Could be dead. Or, could have assumed identity of some poor kid who died young, gotten birth certificate copy, used it to get a driver’s license, soc sec card copy and voila, ressurection.
kill ‘em all
On this you'll get no argument from me.
I was just commenting on the two-tiered system of justice we have in our country.
If it kwaks like duck…
Thank you.
5.56mm
No, Homosexual trumps common criminal. He would need at least two, if not 3 points to get off from killing a lesbian. You need to keep track of the points to see who wins.
Sorry for your loss. My guess is that the killer went back to Mexico, and came back across with a different name.
....”Tie them up and have people throw rocks at them.”
Good idea. In ancient times, criminals were stoned to death.
Good idea. In ancient times, criminals were stoned to death.
Everybody must get stoned!
If you want to find him, hire a skip tracer. A good one.
No, You covered 99% of it. Had I been Born a few years earlier I’d have been able to Vote to try and help save some of this from happening.
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