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Colorado 'blood brothers' threw rocks at moving cars for 2 months before killing woman: investigator
[FoxNews] A Colorado investigator testified Wednesday that the teenagers accused of killing a 20-year-old woman after throwing a landscaping rock through her car windshield had been throwing rocks at moving vehicles for about two months before their actions allegedly resulted in a fatality.

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office (JCSO) in April arrested three then-18-year-old suspects — Joseph Koenig, Nicholas "Mitch" Karol-Chik and Zachary Kwak, of Arvada — in connection with the homicide of Alexa Bartell, who died after a large rock flew through her windshield and hit her in the head on April 19. A judge ruled after a preliminary hearing Wednesday that the three teens will face trial.

The lead investigator assigned to the case testified during the preliminary hearing that Karol-Chik told him he and his friends had thrown rocks at cars approximately 10 times between February and April.

Prior to Bartell's death, Koenig and Karol-Chik allegedly threw a landscaping "statue head" at a vehicle carrying a couple and their children earlier in April, the investigator testified.

The suspected admitted to "throwing rocks not just at targets but at people driving," the investigator said.
Small boulders, not pebbles.
Between 10 p.m. and 12 a.m. on April 19 and April 20, the suspects allegedly threw rocks at six different cars, injuring multiple drivers and killing Bartell. Earlier on April 19, they made plans to meet up and drove to Walmart together, where they picked up landscaping rocks from the edge of the store's parking lot and loaded the rocks into Koenig's pickup, according to an arrest affidavit previously obtained by Fox News Digital.

Posted by: Skidmark 2023-10-19
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