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| Three Colorado teens appear in court charged with fatally throwing giant landscaping rock through windscreen of 20-year-old female driver's car and then taking PHOTO as a sick memento |
| 2023-05-04 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Karol-Chik, Koenig and Kwak...KKK? No HATE crime charges? Three teenage boys appeared in court Wednesday accused of killing a 20 year-old woman by hurling a rock through the windshield of her car. Nicholas 'Mitch' 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. The trio have already been charged with crimes including first-degree murder - and now face additional counts of assault and attempted assault. Those charges relate to other incidents of rocks being hurled at cars which prosecutors say they were responsible for too. 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. After the call went silent, the friend tracked Bartell's location with a phone app, drove to her, and found the woman dead in her car, which had crashed into a field. The boys returned later to take a photo of the car as a 'memento', Karol-Chik told investigators when questioned. They also allegedly attacked six other cars in Arvada on April 19, First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King announced. Meanwhile, MSU Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology Denise Mowder told KDVR that she thinks prosecutors have a strong first-degree murder case. The killing was the fourth of six rock-hurling incidents reported from 10pm onwards on that same evening, causing minor injuries to two other drivers. The office of Karol-Chik's lawyer, Holly Gummerson, and Koenig's lawyer, Tom Ward, declined to comment. A message left by the Associated Press for Kwak's lawyer, Emily Boehne, was not immediately returned. During a brief afternoon court hearing, the lawyers all declined to have the charges read. Karol-Chik told investigators that Koenig slowed down so Kwak could get a photo of Bartell'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 'a hint of guilt' passing by her car, according to court documents. Kwak said he took the photo because he thought that Karol-Chik or Koenig would want to have a 'memento' of what had happened, according to the arrest affidavits. He reportedly told the others: 'We have to go back and see that.' 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's account in the affidavits. Karol-Chik and Kwak offered different accounts about who threw the fatal rock. 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. Related: Jefferson County: 2023-03-26 Yet another dazzling success story from the woke justice system files... Jefferson County: 2023-01-13 Missouri sheriff's office provides free drinks for two hours - plus a ride home - for volunteers willing to help officers train for sobriety tests Jefferson County: 2022-11-02 SAFE-T Act: Illinois sheriff warns prosecutors not to be ‘overzealous' targeting victims stopping criminals |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #4 Not a new thing. My older brother survived a "concrete bomb" attack from a pedestrian overpass over the interstate in Oklahoma City back in the late 70's. He had fast enough reflexes to swerve so the rock hit the rider side. They were gone in a flash so that's where the story ended. |
| Posted by: magpie 2023-05-04 16:40 |
| #3 This is interesting: The killing was the fourth of six rock-hurling incidents reported from 10pm onwards on that same evening, causing minor injuries to two other drivers. Landscaping rock. That isn't randomly dropping some chunk of concrete, it took some planning and effort. They will put forward a defense; it will be a stupid one. Its Denver. She was white and wearing a cross. And this may well be an Antifa local call for disorder. No wonder they want to go to trial. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-05-04 12:28 |
| #2 They will put forward a defense; it will be a stupid one. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-05-04 12:12 |
| #1 Could take each of them up into the mountains, trap them with a heavy boulder on their strong arm and a dull swiss army knife near the other arm. Pay per view, as a memento. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-05-04 11:25 |