Three suspects in rock-throwing homicide face 13 charges

BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

e three 18-year-olds suspected of killing Alexa Bartell during a rock-throwing rampage on April 19 were o cially charged by the O ce of the First Judicial District Attorney on May 3. e trio face 13 charges including rst-degree murder and assault and are being held without bond.

Twenty-year-old Arvada resident Bartell was driving northbound along Indiana Street when a rock crashed through her windshield and sent her vehicle hurtling from

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Nicholas Karol-Chik, Joseph Koenig and Zachary Kwak all face the same 13 charges: one count of murder in the first degree, six counts of criminal attempt to commit murder in the first degree, three counts of assault in the second degree and three counts of criminal attempt to commit assault in the first degree.

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