Three teenagers accused of killing a 20-year-old girl whereas throwing giant rocks at passing vehicles have been charged with homicide and different crimes, prosecutors mentioned Wednesday.
Nicholas "Mitch" Karol-Chik, Joseph Koenig and Zachary Kwak, all 18, every face an identical fees of first-degree homicide, tried first-degree homicide, second-degree assault and tried second-degree assault within the dying of Alexis Bartell — and alleged assaults on six different vehicles in suburban Denver, First Judicial District Legal professional Alexis King introduced.
Two different drivers suffered minor accidents, in response to investigators.
The workplace of Karol-Chik's lawyer, Holly Gummerson, and Koenig's lawyer, Tom Ward, declined to remark.
A messages left for Kwak's lawyer, Emily Boehne, was not instantly returned. Throughout a short afternoon court docket listening to, the attorneys all declined to have the costs learn.
In response to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Workplace, Bartell was speaking on the telephone with a pal when she was hit by the rock on April 19.
After the decision went silent, the pal tracked Bartell's location with a telephone app and located the lady lifeless in her automobile, which had crashed right into a area.
Karol-Chik instructed investigators that Koenig slowed down so Kwak may get a photograph of Bartell's automobile after it crashed right into a area.
He mentioned all three received excited each time they hit a automobile with landscaping rocks taken from a Walmart car parking zone, however acknowledged he felt "a touch of guilt" passing by her automobile, in response to court docket paperwork.
Kwak mentioned he took the photograph as a result of he thought that Karol-Chik or Koenig would wish to have a "memento" of what had occurred, in response to the arrest affidavits.
Karol-Chik instructed investigators with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Workplace that he and Koenig had thrown rocks and even a statue at passing vehicles on no less than 10 different days earlier than Bartell was killed.
Kwak heard about what they'd been doing and requested to hitch them, in response to Karol-Chik's account within the affidavits.
Karol-Chik and Kwak provided totally different accounts about who threw the deadly rock.
Koenig didn't converse to investigators after he was arrested, in response to the arrest affidavits.
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