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Jilly_in_VA

(9,992 posts)
Wed Apr 26, 2023, 12:57 PM Apr 2023

Three high school seniors arrested after fatal rock-throwing incident just outside Denver

Three high school seniors were arrested after allegedly hurling a landscaping rock at a Colorado woman, killing her as she drove just outside of Denver, authorities said Wednesday.

Alexa Bartell, 20, "was killed when a rock was thrown through her windshield as she was driving" north in the 10600 block of Indiana Street at about 10:45 p.m. in Westminster on April 19, according to a statement from Jefferson County Sheriff's investigators.

Bartell was the last of several cars "struck by large landscaping rocks in a spree that began shortly after" 10 p.m. that night near 100th Avenue and Simms Street in Westminster, officials said.

Joseph Nicholas “Mitch” Karol-Chik, Joseph Koenig and Zachary Kwak, all 18, were taken into custody at their homes in Arvada, according to the sheriffs statement.

All three suspects are 12th graders from Jefferson County Public Schools — one who attends Ralston Valley HS, one from Standley Lake HS while a third is enrolled in an online program, said sheriff’s spokesperson Jacki Kelley, who didn't know which teen goes to which school.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/three-men-18-arrested-fatal-rock-throwing-incident-just-denver-rcna81542

I wonder if their attorney will try to pull out the same argument that one in Tennessee did for a similar incident--that they were just boys "out for a night of redneck fun".

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Three high school seniors arrested after fatal rock-throwing incident just outside Denver (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Apr 2023 OP
Well, theyre all 18 XanaDUer2 Apr 2023 #1
It's murder. Geez... LakeArenal Apr 2023 #2
Exactly Rebl2 Apr 2023 #5
I don't know about redneck. Zachary Kwak is definitely not white. jimfields33 Apr 2023 #3
This article has pictures Jilly_in_VA Apr 2023 #4
The murdered young woman looked like a terrifically positive, friendly person, too. Judi Lynn Apr 2023 #6

LakeArenal

(28,835 posts)
2. It's murder. Geez...
Wed Apr 26, 2023, 01:05 PM
Apr 2023

Same as throwing rocks from a bridge. It kills people and it’s not unreasonable to assume it will kill someone.

Judi Lynn

(160,592 posts)
6. The murdered young woman looked like a terrifically positive, friendly person, too.
Thu Apr 27, 2023, 01:51 AM
Apr 2023

What a shame these monsters ended her life. The world clearly needed her more than bored, malicious, ignorant idiots like them.

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