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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…
Defense in deadly rock-throwing case wants confession thrown out

Apr 25, 2024

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Carol McKinley, Special to the Denver Gazette

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In a day-long motions hearing Thursday, one of three defendants on trial for Alexa Bartell’s April 2023 rock-throwing murder fought to have a four-hour confession he gave the night he was arrested thrown out of his upcoming trial. Attorneys for Nicholas “Mitch” Karol-Chik claimed that…
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…
What happened the night 3 suspects went on a deadly rock-throwing spree

Apr 28, 2023

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Carol McKinley, Special to the Denver Gazette

A landscape river rock hit Alexa Bartell’s car so hard, it sounded like a “rail gun,” one of the teens suspected of killing her told Jefferson County Sheriff’s investigators. Arrest records obtained by The Denver Gazette said the rock slammed into the windshield of Bartell’s car, hit her in the head, and exited the back…

Tag: Zachary Kwak

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

Defense in deadly rock-throwing case wants confession thrown out

Two more victims emerge in deadly rock-throwing case

Rock throwing suspects to have separate trials, judge rules

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

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

What happened the night 3 suspects went on a deadly rock-throwing spree