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Murder trial of rock-throwing suspect starts Friday with jury selection

Apr 10, 2025

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Michael Braithwaite

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Joseph Koenig faces first-degree murder charges in the expected two-week trial in Jefferson County

Judge allows ‘prior acts’ evidence in rock-throwing trial for suspect in Alexa Bartell’s death

Feb 13, 2025

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Carol McKinley, Special to the Denver Gazette

When Nicholas “Mitch” Karol-Chik told interrogators that the night of April 19, 2023 wasn’t the first time he’d thrown objects at moving cars, the admission was a bombshell. This week, First Judicial District Judge Christopher Zenisek ruled that information from Karol-Chik’s video-taped interview about the “prior acts” of rock-throwing can be admitted at Joseph Koenig’s…

Expert on adolescent brain to testify in rock-throwing trial

Dec 12, 2024

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Carol McKinley, Special to the Denver Gazette

One of the country’s leading psychological experts on the maturity of the adolescent brain will be allowed to testify in the upcoming trial of a man accused of throwing the rock that killed Alexa Bartell. First Judicial District Judge Christopher Zenicek denied the prosecution’s motion to exclude the testimony of Dr. Laurence Steinberg saying it…

Alexa Bartell murder: as trial deadline looms, defendants may turn

May 7, 2024

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Carol McKinley, Special to the Denver Gazette

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As the trial deadline looms for three suspects accused of killing an Arvada woman in a rock-throwing spree, it’s starting to look like two against one. Alexa Bartell’s tragic death shocked the Front Range last April. In an evidentiary hearing Tuesday, 1st Judicial Judge Christopher…

Two more victims emerge in deadly rock-throwing case

Apr 1, 2024

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Carol McKinley, Special to the Denver Gazette

Two more victims have surfaced in connection with a deadly night of rock-throwing that ended up in the brutal death of a 20-year-old Arvada woman last year, a Monday court hearing revealed. Joseph Koenig, one of three rock-throwing suspects, has been charged with four additional counts — two each of attempted murder and second-degree assault in…

Rock throwing suspects to have separate trials, judge rules

Dec 16, 2023

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Carol McKinley, Special to the Denver Gazette

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save There will be three separate trials for three teenagers who allegedly hit seven vehicles with large landscaping rocks while they were driving, bursting the windshield of one and causing the death an Arvada woman, a judge ruled Friday. Nicholas “Mitch” Karol-Chik, Zachary Kwak and Joseph…

Judge stuns courtroom, postpones hearing for alleged rock-throwing suspects

Sep 8, 2023

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Carol McKinley

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Nicholas “Mitch” Karol-Chik, Joseph Koenig and Zachary Kwak face 13 counts each in connection with Alexa Bartell’s death

Accused rock-throwers also involved in earlier statue-hurling incident, prosecutors allege

Sep 7, 2023

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Carol McKinley

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A deadly night of drive-by rock-throwing, which shocked the Front Range last spring, may not have been the first for a couple of Arvada teenagers, prosecutors alleged in court filings. Two of three suspects accused of killing an Arvada woman during a reckless rock-throwing spree at moving cars last April 19 have been charged with…

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